> On 24. Sep 2018, at 11:31, Matthias Apitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've booted a fresh r338641 from an USB key on my Acer C720, and have
> the required modules loaded at boot (cyapa and ig4) and the values for cyapa 
> in
> /boot/device.hints, as I do use them in r314251. The moused is running as
> 
> /usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/cyapa0 -t ps/2
> 
> but no mouse pointer is written on the console. If I do
> 
> # cat /dev/cyapa0
> 
> on TP movements, bytes can be read by cat(1). And trussing the PID of
> the moused shows too that it is reading bytes.
> 
> What could be wrong?

Do you by any chance use vt(4) in vga textmode (hw.vga.textmode=1)?

vt doesn’t support hardware mouse cursors, so no cursor in text mode (see 
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons)

Best,
Michael




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