From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
Organization: CC CTU Prague
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:32:14 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Bug 502] New: Broken cursor when using neofb
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jsimmons@infradead.org
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On 25 Mar 03 at 11:57, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Mar 25 20:04:58 gswi1164 kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
> 
> On a vc the line cursor looks like
> ****** ** ********
> instead of
> ****************** (the normally continous line is broken).
> Emacs uses a block cursor that is broken similar, the block
> is broken by two vertical bars.

Well, then it's not my bug then. Go to the drivers/video/console/fbcon.c,
and do (pseudopatch):

+ memset(data, 0xff, size);
  if (cursor->set & FB_CUR_SETSIZE) {
-    memset(data, 0xff, size);
     cursor->set |= FB_CUR_SETSHAPE;
  }
 
Correct cursor should appear after that. It is questionable whether this
layer should do this SETSIZE -> SETSHAPE propagation, as soft_cursor()
does same. I recommend leaving this here, and removing it from
soft_cursor() code.
                                                            Petr
                                                            

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