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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: The cursor vanishes
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>In relation to the message I just sent about the panic when booting from
>the serial console, I've also noticed that the cursor vanishes when
>kernel printf()s are displayed. Looks like somebody munged my noblink
>cursor stuff too. S'matter guys, my hacks not good enough for ya? :)

The cursor also vanishes during debugging.  More surprisingly, it
vanished when I ran something that used to cause a panic - the
system hung, but not before it turned off the cursor.

Bruce