From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.5.69 - no setfont and loadkeys on tty > 1 Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 02:10:48 +0200 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030515001048.GA14685@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20030514224212.GA8124@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from smtp-out1.iol.cz ([194.228.2.86]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 19G6MY-0004gU-00 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 17:12:47 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: James Simmons Cc: kernel list , Linux Fbdev development list Hi! > > > appears the flashing is the issue. I will see if a hardware cursor > > > also has > > Your right. I realize my logic error. I was literally thinking too black > and white. In the case of a cursor that is a white thin line at the bottom > and a grey background. That is whole cursor image!! The mask should be > the font image to be drawn. > You can think of it as the cursor being a big grey cookie with white > frosting decoration on the bottom. Then I come with my font shape cookie > cutter and cut it out. I'm not sure I follow you. What I do in that echo is set softcursor. It was software cursor even on plain vga. Boot into 2.4 to see how it should look like. It works even in vga text modes. It is different from softcursor later introduced by fbcon. Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt describes it. Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] ------------------------------------------------------- Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo, June 4-6, 2003, Santa Clara The only event dedicated to issues related to Linux enterprise solutions www.enterpriselinuxforum.com