Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 12:21:17 -0500 (CDT) From: edward@seaysys.com (Edward E. Elzey) To: jzimba@cs.wvu.edu= Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syscons hw cursor Message-ID: <9508041721.AA05183@seaysys.com> 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 FreeBSD by avocation All others by vocation.
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