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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1424 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:41:18 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!Germany.EU.net!hcshh!hm From: hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] cursor disappearing on a Trident card Message-ID: <1643@hcshh.hcs.de> Date: 17 Feb 93 08:16:55 GMT References: <1l5vj4INN429@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <1762@dcsc.dla.mil> <C2HGzn.6Mq@sleeper.apana.org.au> Organization: HCS GmbH, Hamburg, Europe Lines: 31 In <C2HGzn.6Mq@sleeper.apana.org.au> raz@sleeper.apana.org.au (Roland Turner) writes: >cp01395@dcsc.dla.mil (Duane L. Rezac) writes: >>From article <1l5vj4INN429@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU[, by petar@athena.mit.edu (Petar Maksimovic): >>[ When he boots up a 386bsd from a floppy or hard disk the >>[ cursor disappears. It appears again only after the clear >>[ command until an enter is pressed. >> I have this same problem (we have trident cards too!) It's real >>annoying when you try to use vi with no cursor. If you receive any >>replies, please post it. >Me too! Anyone who understands the console driver (i don't - yet) have >any ideas? I don't use the standard console driver, but (obviously ..) pcvt. The problem you describe is in this driver too, but there is a workaround for the disappearing cursor: pcvt has a "cursor" command with wich one can set the cursor to the desired size on screen, on "normal" vga cards, it is possible to execute "cursor -s0 -e16" and you get a full character cell height cursor. Not so on Trident cards, to get the same result, you have to execute "cursor -s1 -e16", if you use "cursor -s0 -e16" the cursor disappears! Conclusion: something is wrong with either Tridents way of accepting a cursor size change or with the code in pccons.c (and pcvt) setting the cursor size. hellmuth -- hellmuth michaelis HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH hamburg, europe hm@hcshh.hcs.de tel: +49/40/55903-170 fax: +49/40/5591486