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From: michael@jester.GUN.de (Michael Gerhards)
Subject: Re: cursor??
References: <gate.ee9qFc1w165w@subway.hacktic.nl> <1994Jan7.061120.3230@news.csuohio.edu>
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Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 08:17:23 GMT
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In article <1994Jan7.061120.3230@news.csuohio.edu> , Steve Ratliff wrote:
> 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..
[..]
> 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.
This happened to me with a Trident TVGA 9000, too. It disappeared after
deleting one line in the kernel-sources ( #define FAT_CURSOR I think ).
Michael
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