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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: cursor?? Message-ID: <1994Jan7.061120.3230@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 References: <gate.ee9qFc1w165w@subway.hacktic.nl> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 06:11:20 GMT Lines: 25 Koen Martens (gmc@subway.hacktic.nl) wrote: : Where is my cursor??? : I lost it somewhere in the FreeBSD boot process.. After the first couple : of lines when booting, the cursor dissapears and only pops up on the first : display line.. : : Anybody knows where it might have gone?? :[sig delted] This sounds like a known bug with trident 8900 chipsets. This was discussed several months ago in c.o.386.bugs (I think). Unfortunately I do not remember the exact solution to the problem. I foggily remember something about the chipset not liking the cursor to be initialized on line zero or something. The brute force solution is to exchange your vga card for a better one (different chipset). Another possible solution (????) is to modify the console driver, (either syscons.c or pccons.c ) that you are using and either undef FAT_CURSOR or #define it. I.E. change it opposite to what it is in your existing kernel. The third and probably best choice is to logon to minnie and grep through the old news articles and find the correct solution posted some time ago. Hope this helps some. Steve