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From: "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@sunyit.edu>
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Subject: fix for lost cursor.
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 01:37:34 -0500
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(answering my own question)

this is dumb, but if you lose your cursor because of X and you are using
syscons try:

vidcontrol -c destructive
-or-
vidcontrol -c blinking

it isn't as cool as the regular cursor... but it works.

-Alfred