From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
mlang@debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Set the vga cursor even when hidden
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 10:11:26 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <436D664E.9030109@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051106004451.GF8183@bouh.residence.ens-lyon.fr>
Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Antonino A. Daplas, le Sun 06 Nov 2005 08:37:27 +0800, a écrit :
>> Why not use this method (scanline_end < scanline_start) for VGA, and
>> the default method (moving the cursor out of the screen) for the rest?
>
> Well, visually impaired people might want to use other cards as well.
See Linus's comments about that :-)
>
>> Or why not just set bit 5 of the cursor start register (port 0x0a) to disable
>> the cursor, and clear to enable? I believe this will also work for the
>> other types.
>
> If this works, it would be fine.
No, forget about that. It sounds simple, but when the cursor is moved, the
cursor is unavoidably reenabled again (in vgacon_set_cursor_size). So this method
will require more work for what's it worth. Your patch is much simpler and uses
known working code.
Tony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-06 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-05 21:19 [PATCH] Set the vga cursor even when hidden Samuel Thibault
2005-11-05 21:26 ` [PATCH 2.4] " Samuel Thibault
2005-11-06 0:37 ` [PATCH] " Antonino A. Daplas
2005-11-06 0:44 ` Samuel Thibault
2005-11-06 2:11 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
2005-11-06 0:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-06 1:40 ` Antonino A. Daplas
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