Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 18:09:44 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: ache@astral.msk.su, sos@login.dknet.dk Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com, sos@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa syscons.c syscons.h Message-ID: <199503300809.SAA01753@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>well, on some ancient VGA's the are problems with reading the >cursor shape (had lots of reports on that before), so thats why >I can take a look on a genuine VGA and see what they uses as >default though (it should be fairly standard). Ancienter CGAs, MGAs and EGAs certainly don't have a readable cursor shape so console drivers can't depend on reading it. The scan lines can be read from BIOS memory or with a BIOS call. Bruce
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