On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:08:58AM +0100, harry_b@mm.st wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have a question regarding svgatextmode. > > I installed a new HDD in my notebook and installed a fresh SID system on > it. Everything works nicely except that I can't get svgatextmode working > again like it did before. > > The notebook has a neomagic graphics chipset (Neomagic Corporation NM2200 > [MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 32)) and svgatextmode works almost well, except > that the cursor is missing on bootup. > When I restart it (/etc/init.d/svgatextmode restart) I get the cursor back > for the current console. The other consoles stay without cursor though. > > In /etc/TextConfig I have the line > Cursor 26-31 > which seem to define a propper cursor. > > I also had to create the file /etc/default/STM_nocheckfb to get it working > at all. Maybe you should turn the framebuffer off, then. There's some kernel parameter you can pass at boot to do this. I think it's "video=vga16:off". Or build your own kernel without framebuffer support... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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