Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 06 Nov 2005 10:11:26 +0800 | From | "Antonino A. Daplas" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Set the vga cursor even when hidden |
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Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > Antonino A. Daplas, le Sun 06 Nov 2005 08:37:27 +0800, a écrit : >> Why not use this method (scanline_end < scanline_start) for VGA, and >> the default method (moving the cursor out of the screen) for the rest? > > Well, visually impaired people might want to use other cards as well.
See Linus's comments about that :-)
> >> Or why not just set bit 5 of the cursor start register (port 0x0a) to disable >> the cursor, and clear to enable? I believe this will also work for the >> other types. > > If this works, it would be fine.
No, forget about that. It sounds simple, but when the cursor is moved, the cursor is unavoidably reenabled again (in vgacon_set_cursor_size). So this method will require more work for what's it worth. Your patch is much simpler and uses known working code.
Tony
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