On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote:
> >I agree with you - it is very strange for Czech users too (and maybe
> >for almost all ISO-8859-* users) - default mouse settings override some
> >important characters. Maybe we should ask Kazu if it is possible:
> >
> >1) Move SC_MOUSE_CHAR into sysctl tree as read-write value.
>
> Maybe we had better implement a new ioctl and use vidcontrol to set up
> mouse char codes.
>
> sysctl is to tweak the kernel behavior. I would rather hesitate to
> use it to customize device drivers, unless it has something to do with
> kernel state/behavior and/or security; this is not the case with
> SC_MOUSE_CHAR.
>
> >But Kazu have cleared off in December and I don't know where he is...
>
> I am here :-)
>
Kazu, before you made yourself visible, I went ahead and patched
-stable's syscons to include the hw.syscons.sc_mouse_char sysctl variable.
The patch is in PR kern/15996. I could change to to use the ioctl
interface if you think that is is necessary.
Kelly
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