[PATCH] fbcon: Fix screen artifacts when moving cursor

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>]

When moving the cursor by writing to /dev/vcs*, the old cursor image is not
erased.  Fix by hiding the cursor first before moving the cursor to the
new position.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
---

 drivers/char/vt.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index f1d9cb7..0900d1d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -3213,6 +3213,7 @@ void getconsxy(struct vc_data *vc, unsig
 
 void putconsxy(struct vc_data *vc, unsigned char *p)
 {
+	hide_cursor(vc);
 	gotoxy(vc, p[0], p[1]);
 	set_cursor(vc);
 }

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