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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!unidus.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de!mueller.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de!dvs From: dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Wolfgang R. Mueller) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: My cursor goes away in text mode! Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 12:37:30 GMT Organization: Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany Lines: 17 Message-ID: <dvs.81.732803850@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de> References: <C3zBuy.722@sleeper.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: mueller.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de In article <C3zBuy.722@sleeper.apana.org.au> raz@sleeper.apana.org.au (Roland Turner) writes: >Has anyone (attention VGA gurus) discovered why on some Trident cards >(T9000C chip I belive) the cursor is only visible in the top line of >the text screen? It doesn't matter whether I am looking at a vi screen or >a shell prompt. The cursor is visible in the top line, but not anywhere >else. When running DOS on the same machine however, there is no problem! This is due to a little incompatibility of trident vs other vga chips. A cursor start value of 0 makes the cursor invisible on many tridents. In pccons.c there is a default of FAT_CURSOR leading to cursor size programming from 0 to 16. Changing this to "from 13 to 14" made the cursor visible here. Obviously this helps only if you can edit pccons.c and rebuild the kernel :-( (Perhaps those gurus providing bootdisks might publish a binary patch ?). Wolfgang R. Mueller <dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>, Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.