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SubjectRe: [FBDEV UPDATE] Newer patch.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:50:48PM +0100, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > The cursor has changed from a nice underline to a solid white block.
>
> I seen the problem. Its the wrong color for the background color for the
> cursor. I haven't been able to figure out why it went wrong. The specs are
> not to clear on this.
>
> > Not only that,
> > but the block is bigger than the font it is over (if I am on top of
> > adjacent letters, it covers the entire letter I am on, plus a couple of
> > pixels of the letter to the right).
>
> Ug. That code is straight from the old driver. Will fix.
>
> > In additition, the cursor now disappears while typing, and navigating
> > around (on the command line left and right, or even in an editor when
> > moving the cursor up and down). This disappearing while typing or
> > navigating is _really_ annoying. If I go left or right a lot, I have to
> > keep stopping to see where the cursor actually is.
>
> I seen this problem last night with the NVIDIA fbdev driver. I think I
> know what the problem is. I will try a fix tonight.

I noticed one thing, and that is that the mach64 used to use software
cursor it seems (I remember wondering why atyfb_cursor was never used
anywhere). It's now using the hw cursor.

Also, I notice with this new code that the random vertical shifting of
the console doesn't occur anymore like it does with current 2.6.0-test8
code. For as long as I can remember 2.6.0-test, and way back into
2.5.5x, this has been a problem with highly active console programs
(mutt, vim, etc...). Good to see it's going away :)

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