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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa syscons.c syscons.h
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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