Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Sep 1998 12:21:44 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: Linux console cursor location? |
| |
Hello,
> One easy way to solve this is to use our direct VGA console library > which talks directly to the screen. This works perfectly under Linux > right now, however the problem is that when we exit we need to be > able to tell the Linux console to move the cursor location to the new > location that our console library has changed it to, so that it does > not overwrite our messages on the screen. Hence I am wondering if > there is a kernel call that we can make to move the console cursor > location? Alternatively how can we simply always move the console > cursor location to the bottom of the screen (some kind of escape > code?).
Just use the appropriate escape sequence to move the cursor.
> Also is there a kernel call that we can use to disable the console > scrolling which is done with the hardware panning registers? I know > that switching virtual consoles does this, and we would like to be > able to clear this before displaying our messages...
When managing the videoram yourself, you should switch to the graphics mode. The console then resets the screen origin registers automatically.
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems."
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/faq.html
| |