Re: Getting a cursor in console

[Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net>]

news.malik@gmx.net wrote:

> If this helps take a look at the kernel documentation for details, 
> the relevant part is "Software cursor for vga" (file VGA-softcursor.txt)
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> > I'm embarassed to say so, but I couldn't find doc specifcally for 
> > kernel. I looked in /usr/doc & /usr/share/doc
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> No need to embarrassed, everyone has to learn stuff at some point.
> The kernel documentation indeed resides in a non-standard directory.
> Installing the kernel-source (package kernel-source-version) installs
> a tarball named kernel-source-version.tar.bz2 in /usr/src which 
> includes the kernel documentation.
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> Joe
Thanks again for valuable guidance, Joe. I installed the kernel-source 
pkg, unpacked the tar.bz2 file--and now I have enough documentation to 
keep me busy for quite awhile! It really helped, this hands-on 
experience in getting documentation in place. (That's one thing I like 
about Debian--documentation seems better & much more extensive than in 
YDL, the distro I've been using.)

--Harvey

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