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From: "Carlos O'Donell Jr." <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca>
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Helge,

> > p.s. This is just the start of my quest to stop the unbliking eye...
> >      a.k.a. "hardware cusor blinking" ... from _always_ appearing
> >      during framebuffer writes.
> 
> Shouldn't be that hard.
>

I've done a few nasty things to /drivers/video/sti to attempt to
stop the hardware cursor bliking, but I've not succeeded.

Even if I have no console on /dev/fb0 the penguin and blinking
cursor are the first things to appear as the fb device is initialized.

Any hints?

c.