From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262784AbTJ3T66 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:58:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262787AbTJ3T66 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:58:58 -0500 Received: from smtp1.clear.net.nz ([203.97.33.27]:5069 "EHLO smtp1.clear.net.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262784AbTJ3T65 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:58:57 -0500 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:46:46 +1300 From: Nigel Cunningham Subject: Re: Cursor problems still in test9 In-reply-to: <20031030090934.GC295@elf.ucw.cz> To: Pavel Machek Cc: James Simmons , Linux Kernel Mailing List , geert@linux-m68k.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Message-id: <1067543205.4041.17.camel@laptop-linux> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4-8mdk Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <20031028094907.GA1319@elf.ucw.cz> <20031030090934.GC295@elf.ucw.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org You can also see the cursor not getting erased if you try my software suspend port with the nice display turned on. It works fine on 2.4, but under 2.6 you get underlines all over the place, even though it tries to hide the cursor. Regards, Nigel On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 22:09, Pavel Machek wrote: > Well, we certainly do not want to see artifacts leaved behind cursor, > which is what 2.6 currently does. (Type something in bash, backspace > over it). > > Making it behave like it does now with 2.6, but with cursor properly > deleted after after backspace, it would be okay. > > [It should behave the same way on 2.4 vgacon and fbcon... with > possible difference that "bright background" might cause characters to > blink on vgacon. That depends on vga card setting and is not really > important.] -- Nigel Cunningham 495 St Georges Road South, Hastings 4201, New Zealand Evolution (n): A hypothetical process whereby infinitely improbable events occur with alarming frequency, order arises from chaos, and no one is given credit.