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From: sos@login.dknet.dk (S|ren Schmidt)
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa syscons.c syscons.h
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
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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.
> 

You shouldn't have the BIOS mem adresses handy ??
(would save me locating my old AT BIOS reference manual :-)



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