I wrote: > >Was SVGATextMode's cursor-setting ability removed as a result of an >intentional change, or might it get fixed? Or might CUR_DEFAULT become >tunable? Maybe another control sequence could make the current cursor >settings the default, like setterm -store does for foreground and background >colors.
I found the cause of this new behavior: font loading. SVGATextMode can be configured to load a font with consolechars. It does that after setting the cursor. In 2.6.11 vgacon_adjust_height() was changed to reset the cursor in addition to the font size. The solution is: disable SVGATextMode's font loading, and if you want to change the font, do it before you run SVGATextMode. The second problem remains a mystery: >On another note, the resize function of SVGATextMode has been affected >strangely too. Sometimes, when resizing the screen to a mode larger than >80x25, the video settings come out correctly but the terminal only uses the >first 25 lines, with the bottom of the screen being blank. This one is hard >to reproduce. I can reproduce it by doing a full boot (which includes an >SVGATextMode call from /etc/rcS.d/S60svgatextmode) followed by a manual >SVGATextMode on tty2. The first one works, and the second one screws up the >terminal size. When I try to reproduce that series of events without the call >from /etc/rcS.d, the problem doesn't show up. > >In any case, when that problem _does_ show up, it can be fixed by immediately >running the same command again, on the same tty where it just screwed up. And >it never fails twice without an intervening reboot. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
