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From: edward@seaysys.com (Edward E. Elzey)
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Subject: Re: syscons hw cursor
To: jzimba@cs.wvu.edu=
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 12:21:17 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199508041514.LAA10229@Access.Mountain.Net> from "Joel Zimba" at Aug 4, 95 11:14:08 am
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Received from Joel Zimba:
>
>Ok,
>         here's a proplexing one.
>
>2.0 had a fine little hardware cursor that  looked  just  like  a
>cursor should. hardware driven, blinking, happy friendly.
>
>        2.0.5 has this line that is drawn there by  some  strange
>configurations options in syscons.h
>
>also, the hw cursor is placed at the lower left  hand  corner  of
>the screen.
>
>Why someone would rather have a picture there instead of the real
>one I don't know

I have been kind of curious about this, myself.  I find it real
tough to find the cursor when it doesn't blink, especially if there
is reverse video on the screen.  It could at least be bright!

Why *did* the cursor change?


>
>It makes it damn had for my braille output device  to  track  it,

Hmm... Braille output device.  Perhaps I should have been a bit
more sensitive, above, and said "flash" instead of "blink."   ;-)


>and  reminds  me of working on ibm mainframes or something, which
>ruins my day.
>
>anyway, there are a couple  of  options  which  I  thought  might
>control this.
>
>the is a CURSOR_ENABLE option  which  has  a  mask  of  00200  or
>something.
>
>I guess this could  be  significant,  but  there  is  no  comment
>associated with this line.
>
>also I can't set the dead_char to anything worthwhile.
>
>I tried 00 but that didn't work.
>
>I don't believe there is an ascii value associated with the  real
>cursor.
>
>anyway,  if  anyone  out  there  has  a  clue,  a  tip  would  be
>appreciated.
>
>tanks
>
>Joel
>
--
Edward Elzey
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