On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Cejka Rudolf wrote:
>
> Marcin Cieslak wrote (2000/01/05):
> > Is there any _particular_ reason why this is #define'd to (0xd0)
> > in /sys/dev/syscons/syscons.c?
>
> >From syscons.c,v - 1998/02/11 (author: yokota):
>
> - another new option: SC_MOUSE_CHAR
> Define the first character code of four consecutive codes to be used for
> the mouse cursor. Default codes are 0xd0 through 0xd3. Beware that
> if you decide to use any codes outside the range of 0xc0-0xdf,
> the mouse cursor may not look good, because of the way VGA displays
> characters in 9-dot-wide character cells.
> Requested by several people.
>
In the 90-column video modes, you can use any character you want. They
work by turning off the 0th bit copy used to simulate the 9th bit position
on the VGA fonts. I believe Kazu has incorporated my patches for these
modes into -current (I originally wrote them for 2.2.6 syscons). So
in response to the original question: sure you could move the
mouse chars to 0x08 - 0x0b if you wanted, but it'll look bad unless you
are running in a 90-column text mode.
In any event, If we don't here from Kazu in the near future, I'll
send-pr a patch to make the first character used for the mouse cursor a
sysctl knob.
Kelly
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