Re: Cursor problems still in test9

From: Nigel Cunningham
Date: Thu Oct 30 2003 - 14:59:57 EST


You can also see the cursor not getting erased if you try my software
suspend port with the nice display turned on. It works fine on 2.4, but
under 2.6 you get underlines all over the place, even though it tries to
hide the cursor.

Regards,

Nigel

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 22:09, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Well, we certainly do not want to see artifacts leaved behind cursor,
> which is what 2.6 currently does. (Type something in bash, backspace
> over it).
>
> Making it behave like it does now with 2.6, but with cursor properly
> deleted after after backspace, it would be okay.
>
> [It should behave the same way on 2.4 vgacon and fbcon... with
> possible difference that "bright background" might cause characters to
> blink on vgacon. That depends on vga card setting and is not really
> important.]


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