On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 the mental interface of
Antonino A. Daplas told:
> On Monday 25 October 2004 06:46, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 20:22, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> > > From: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>
> > > To: linux-fbdev-list <linux-fbdev-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> > > Subject: [Linux-fbdev-users] (2.6.9-rc4|2.6.9|2.6.10-rc1) black cursor on
> > > console [ppc platform] Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 11:25:57 +0200
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am running 2.6.10-rc1 on my Apple AlBG4. gpm is started at boottime.
> > > The mousecursor is black colored on vt's and can be used as a brush to
> > > darken the screen.
> >
> > I know and told the guy to fwd to the list. I don't know what's up, there
> > is no accel cursor in radeonfb so it must be the generic cursor code...
>
> I don't think gpm calls the console cursor code. It directly manipulates
> the screen buffer via the TIOCLINUX ioctl. Also, softcursor does call
> imageblit, so indirectly, it uses hardware acceleration. Maybe a problem
> with one of the drawing functions?
>
> Elimar, can you try booting with 'noaccel' and see what happens?
$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.10-rc1-aragorn (riesebie@aragorn) (gcc-Version 3.4.2 (Debian 3.4.2-3)) #1 Mon Oct 25 20:16:41 CEST 2004
$ dmesg | grep accel
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda5 ro noaccel
And no changes to the described behaviour :(
> >
> > I noticed that on the g5 here, the generic cursor code never worked
> > properly especially since James 2.6 rework. At boot, I get a flashing
> > cursor just below the linux logo that is obviously "corrupt" (a block of
> > random picxels of the size of a character), though it seems to fix itself
> > after the logo goes away.
>
> I just submitted a clean-up patch for the cursor code, but I'm not sure if
> that will help.
Where to find? I'll test it :)
Elimar
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