Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 10:42:07 MET DST From: sos@login.dknet.dk (S|ren Schmidt) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: ache@astral.msk.su, 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: <9503300842.AA27259@login.dknet.dk> In-Reply-To: <199503300809.SAA01753@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 30, 95 6:09 pm
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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).
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> 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.
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You shouldn't have the BIOS mem adresses handy ??
(would save me locating my old AT BIOS reference manual :-)
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