I used to have mousechar_start="3" in my r.conf. To be honest I can not even recall why. But this worked fine with syscons without any glitches. With vt I get the following during boot up: vidcontrol: setting mouse character: Inappropriate ioctl for device And mouse cursor is never drawn, apparently vidcontrol -m on -M <X> just fails. Looks like with syscons MOUSE_MOUSECHAR ioctl is handled by a terminal device and consolectl device while with vt it is handled only by sysmouse device. Another issue is that I see the following messages appearing during boot and from time to time afterwards in the system log: kernel: sysmouse: unknown ioctl: t:40007413 kernel: sysmouse: unknown ioctl: t:80007410 The ioctls seem to be TIOCFLUSH and TIOCGETA, so I am not sure why sysmouse gets involved. Maybe the same issue exists with syscons's sysmouse as well, but it is just silent about it. Seems like ioctls are called by X server. For example: sysmouse_ioctl:entry kernel`devfs_ioctl_f+0x11c kernel`kern_ioctl+0x1db kernel`sys_ioctl+0x142 kernel`amd64_syscall+0x3c9 kernel`0xffffffff8080e6db libc.so.7`ioctl+0xa Xorg`xf86OpenSerial+0x221 mouse_drv.so`MouseProc+0x2f3 Xorg`EnableDevice+0x214 Xorg`xf86Wakeup+0x57b Xorg`WakeupHandler+0x42 Xorg`WaitForSomething+0x317 Xorg`Dispatch+0x92 Xorg`main+0x475 Xorg`_start+0x14f sysmouse_ioctl:entry kernel`devfs_ioctl_f+0x11c kernel`kern_ioctl+0x1db kernel`sys_ioctl+0x142 kernel`amd64_syscall+0x3c9 kernel`0xffffffff8080e6db libc.so.7`ioctl+0xa Xorg`xf86FlushInput+0x21 mouse_drv.so`MouseProc+0x376 Xorg`EnableDevice+0x214 Xorg`xf86Wakeup+0x57b Xorg`WakeupHandler+0x42 Xorg`WaitForSomething+0x317 Xorg`Dispatch+0x92 Xorg`main+0x475 Xorg`_start+0x14f ld-elf.so.1`0x8007d5000 -- Andriy GaponReceived on Mon Feb 17 2014 - 09:09:34 UTC
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