Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Antonino A. Daplas, le Sun 06 Nov 2005 08:37:27 +0800, a écrit :
>> Why not use this method (scanline_end < scanline_start) for VGA, and
>> the default method (moving the cursor out of the screen) for the rest?
>
> Well, visually impaired people might want to use other cards as well.
See Linus's comments about that :-)
>
>> Or why not just set bit 5 of the cursor start register (port 0x0a) to disable
>> the cursor, and clear to enable? I believe this will also work for the
>> other types.
>
> If this works, it would be fine.
No, forget about that. It sounds simple, but when the cursor is moved, the
cursor is unavoidably reenabled again (in vgacon_set_cursor_size). So this method
will require more work for what's it worth. Your patch is much simpler and uses
known working code.
Tony
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