Re: fb-related kernel panic?
David Brown wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 11:02:51AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
>
> > > > really the main thing i would like to fix with this silly framebuffer
> > > > (othe then the annoying resync on VC switches) is this big ugly
> > > > blinking block cursor. its a blinking _ on sparcs just like the intel
> > > > VGA, so why not on ppc !
>
> Look at the file VGA-softcursor.txt in the kernel source (I've attached it
> below). You can change the cursor to whatever you want (well, whatever the
> code lets you).
That text is nice, but it contains the word 'VGA' too many times for us who
don't have a VGA console...
However, as I said, the cursor appearance can be easily changed either in
fbcon (for all fbdevs who don't have their own cursor drawing function - look
at drivers/video/fbcon.c, function fbcon_cursor, and
drivers/video/fbcon-cfb{8,16,24,32}.c, function fbcon_cfb{8,16,24,32}_revc) or
in the respective framebuffer device (by providing a driver-specific revc
function).
Michel
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast
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