From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:49:46 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] fbcon: expose cursor blink interval via sysfs Message-Id: <20150225094946.GA24627@amd> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Scot Doyle Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Tomi Valkeinen , Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon 2015-01-26 20:41:53, Scot Doyle wrote: > The fbcon cursor, when set to blink, is hardcoded to toggle display state > five times per second. Expose this setting via > /sys/class/graphics/fbcon/cursor_blink_ms > > Values written to the interface set the approximate time interval in > milliseconds between cursor toggles, from 1 to 32767. Since the interval > is stored internally as a number of jiffies, the millisecond value read > from the interface may not exactly match the entered value. > > An outstanding blink timer is reset after a new value is entered. > > If the cursor blink is disabled, either via the 'cursor_blink' boolean > setting or some other mechanism, the 'cursor_blink_ms' setting may still > be modified. The new value will be used if the blink is reactivated. > > Signed-off-by: Scot Doyle Normally, this would be set by ansi escape sequences, no? We can hide cursor using them, set its appearance.. makes sense to change timing value there, too.... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html