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From: "Alan Curry" <pacman-kernel@manson.clss.net>
To: aebr@win.tue.nl (Andries Brouwer)
Cc: akpm@osdl.org (Andrew Morton),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eich@freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: SVGATextMode on 2.6.11
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:31:11 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050322213114.20103.qmail@manson.clss.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050322200616.GA4583@pclin040.win.tue.nl> from "Andries Brouwer" at Mar 22, 2005 09:06:16 PM

Andries Brouwer writes the following:
>
>> "Alan Curry" <pacman-kernel@manson.clss.net> wrote:
>>> An SVGATextMode
>>> block cursor isn't affected by ^[c -- it truly *becomes* the default
>
>True - it is obtained by hardware reprogramming. But having lots of programs
>touch the hardware is getting less popular.

Yes, I realize that SVGATextMode is probably considered obsolete by now. If
the new cursor-restoring code actually solved a problem, SVGATextMode
breakage is an acceptable side effect.

>Concerning your 1. - You know that such an echo actually creates the VC?
>I still recall the times that there was not enough memory for more than
>four or five VCs, but probably you don't mind wasting a few hundred kB.

I did find a better way, as explained in a subsequent message: Set the
console font before changing the cursor, and don't touch it afterward.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-22 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-02 22:38 SVGATextMode on 2.6.11 Alan Curry
2005-03-21 22:18 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-22 20:06   ` Andries Brouwer
2005-03-22 21:31     ` Alan Curry [this message]
     [not found] <no.id>
2005-03-04 23:33 ` Alan Curry

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