Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:39:16 +0100 | From | Daniel Mack <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vt: make the default cursor shape configurable |
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:06:58PM +1030, David Newall wrote: > Daniel Mack wrote: > > "A couple of seconds" is still too much. We don't want to give the > > impression of a terminal at all. The whole application starting > > afterwards has no cursor either. > > Or even half a second. Devices regularly flash and squiggle on startup, > often as a diagnostic. Did you look at initialising your display > controller in graphics mode, or with the cursor off?
It's a dumb framebuffer device, fbcon handles the rest. From the moment when the framebuffer is initalized until the userspace comes up, it takes ~5 secs, and at this time, we don't want to see the cursor.
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