Well, I can update this.
> Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words
> > > > Did the cursor work adequately on 2.6 in the past ?
> > > Never. But I never used 2.6 much.
> > > > Which version of 2.6 are you now using, and which was your
> > > > previous working version ?
> > > 2.6.12.1.
> >
> > > Next bit of spare time I'll stick the framebuffer back in. I have
> > > memories that 1. The radeon card responds strangely to the radeon
> > > module. 2. I have downgraded the monitor to a cheap/nasty type
> > > which may not do what the previous one did.
> >
> > Perhaps try CONFIG_FB_SOFT_CURSOR and CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS with
> > CONFIG_FB_RADEON and CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C and make sure any other
> > framebuffers are not set. Apart from some junk in the early visual
> > output up to maybe 2.6.7, and a missing penguin around 2.6.9 or
> > 2.6.10, the radeon has worked well here as a console framebuffer
> > during 2.6
Nearly got that setup (kernel available in lfs-5.0 & lfs-6.0
CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=m
CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=m
CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=m
CONFIG_FB_SOFT_CURSOR=m
CONFIG_FB_RADEON_OLD=m
CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m
CONFIG_FB_RADEON_DEBUG=y
>
> I can fart around with arguments and options for the video. I'm not
> scared of that. I did get fed up trying to master this curcor thing,
> so I stuck in the ALFS stuff, wiped my 3.3 libs, logs includes, and
> executables, and had chapter 6 & 7 of LFS-6.0 build themselves last
> evening. The thing knew best, of course. It stuck in UDEV(!) after me
> loudly say6ing "That will never work - ever". Of course it decided I
> wanted HOTPLUG (Aaaargh!) and I just have hung on the bootscripts for
> some reason.
>
> That will give me an LFS-6.0, and then I have the BLFS-6.0 profile
> there for another bit of work. At least I will prove if the problem is
> system specific.
Well, after an argument with the bootscripts and introducing myself to
udev I have a shiny new lfs-6.0 system which boots on about 120x50,
and the same cursor fault is preserved. 'setfont lat9w-08' sorts it, but
going into X unsorts it. udev won't make device nodes for anything
useful like a cdrom, but will make ptys and ttys by the bucketload (up
as far as ttyzf, ptyzf). udev is using 580k for the /dev /directory
while the static waste-of-space device nodes use 68k for /dev. I think
udev has it in for me :-)).
The cursor is getting funny at this stage. Mine is a Radeon 7000. I
think it has to do with font size settings. I'm getting various font
sizes, which presumably mean different video modes. Depending on what
order I do things in (load a big font, small font, tiny font) I can see
80x30, 100x43 or 120x50 for the same lat9w-08. Is there a framebuffer
config file I'm missing or something? I think (speculate) that the
cursor, which appears below the font, might be squeezed out of the
display. But how come it's there on tty1?
Oh, and I've just got a present of a LFS6 cd from Italy. Anyone know the
root login?
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With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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