Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 9:15:17 MET DST From: sos@login.dknet.dk (S|ren Schmidt) To: ache@astral.msk.su (Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) 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: <9503300715.AA24204@login.dknet.dk> In-Reply-To: <TBSOUUl0ND@astral.msk.su>; from "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" at Mar 30, 95 2:58 am
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> In message <199503292055.MAA28752@freefall.cdrom.com> Soren Schmidt
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> >sos 95/03/29 12:55:04
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> > Modified: sys/i386/isa syscons.c syscons.h
> > Introduced setting of "destructive" cursor size, much like
> > the old hardware cursor.
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> 1) Don't ever a little looks like old good hardware cursor,
> it still blinks _together_ with char under it! Current technique
> require 0x07 char font reprogramming for every new
> char at cursor position: merge current char and cursor.
Sure, its been so long since I actually used a system with a hw
cursor, that i thought it was destructive, well easy to fix...
> 2) It always occupe scanlines 14-15, why not pick actual
> hardware cursor size at scattach() with
> old get_cursor_shape() function?
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).
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org | sos@login.dknet.dk) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time
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