Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-22 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>Currently SC_MOUSE_CHAR occupes 0xd0-0xd4 range which produce conflict >with several languages code tables. I plan to redefine it by default to >0x03-0x07 leaving possibility to redefine it to any range as currently >present. This way minimizes arcane information needed for user to setup >its lan

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Cejka Rudolf
Andrey A. Chernov wrote (2001/04/19): > In any case it must be sysctl-controlled variable and not kernel > option only. Rebuilding whole kernel to just change console language is > superfluous! rc.syscon/rc.conf hooks must be added too. I agree that there should be some rc.* variable. It is not

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 16:03:01 +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > Wont work, it needs to be in the (IIRC) 0xd0 - 0xe0 range for the > > HW to DTRT with the ninth bit on VGA HW. > > It works for years, just making small vertical black line sometimes > appearse in the cursor. BTW, default varia

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Julian Elischer
"Andrey A. Chernov" wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 13:54:52 +0200, Sřren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > > Currently SC_MOUSE_CHAR occupes 0xd0-0xd4 range which produce conflict > > > with several languages code tables. I plan to redefine it by default to > > > 0x03-0

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 13:54:29 +0100, Nick Hibma wrote: > > You might want to specify in the comment what the arguments should look > like, like an example. > > +mousechar_start="NO"# if 0xd0-0xd4 default range occuped in the font code > > + # table, specify alternative r

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Nick Hibma
You might want to specify in the comment what the arguments should look like, like an example. Nick On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 21:23:57 +0900, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > > > Maybe we should automatically add `-M 3' to flags for vidcontrol > > in rc.

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 21:23:57 +0900, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > Maybe we should automatically add `-M 3' to flags for vidcontrol > in rc.conf for those languages... > Please review this patch: --- defaults/rc.conf.oldTue Apr 10 05:34:17 2001 +++ defaults/rc.confThu Apr 19 16:46:

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 16:03:01 +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > > The has been beaten to death several times before, check the archives... > > We just add yet one conflicting language - Ukrainian. How many you want > to change this decision? Breaking letters is more important than black > l

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
>On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 13:54:52 +0200, S ren Schmidt wrote: >> It seems Andrey A. Chernov wrote: >> > Currently SC_MOUSE_CHAR occupes 0xd0-0xd4 range which produce conflict >> > with several languages code tables. I plan to redefine it by default to >> > 0x03-0x07 leaving possibility to redefin

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 13:54:52 +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > Currently SC_MOUSE_CHAR occupes 0xd0-0xd4 range which produce conflict > > with several languages code tables. I plan to redefine it by default to > > 0x03-0x07 leaving possibility to redefine it t

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > Currently SC_MOUSE_CHAR occupes 0xd0-0xd4 range which produce conflict > with several languages code tables. I plan to redefine it by default to > 0x03-0x07 leaving possibility to redefine it to any range as currently > present. This way minimizes arcane informa