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From: dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Wolfgang R. Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: cursor??
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 07:30:05 GMT
Organization: Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany
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In article <1994Jan7.061120.3230@news.csuohio.edu> stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) writes:
>	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.
This isn't necessary, as his memory served him right, i.e. 
some trident chipsets switch the cursor off when it is programmed to start 
at scan line zero, and the latter happens in pccons.c due to Fat_CURSOR 
being defined by default.
Wolfgang R. Mueller <dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>,
Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.