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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: FreeBSD-1.1.5: mount_pcfs doesn't work Message-ID: <1994Jul3.080620.9472@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <2v4efu$mid@sashimi.wwa.com> <JKH.94Jul3010537@whisker.hubbard.ie> <2v5m0h$fvh@sashimi.wwa.com> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 1994 08:06:20 GMT Lines: 26 Terence S. Murphy (blackbob@sashimi.wwa.com) wrote: : Sorry about that, I was using 1.1.5R but I couldn't remember the device : name! Anyhow, I tried switching to my Oak card and it works fine. The : problem is, XFree86 doesn't support my Oak card, only the Trident. I am so : new to this OS that I'm only vaguely aware that there are more than one : console driver, so I think I'll try to recompile the kernel with a : different driver; might this help? (BTW, I've tried all of the *BSD's and : also Minix with my Trident card and all of them lose the cursor, and I : tried it with two different motherboards). This is a known bug with Trident cards. The GENERIC* kernels are compiled with "option FAT_CURSOR" which is what causes the cursor to dissapear on Trident cards. The FAT_CURSOR option has the cursor start on line 0 and end on line 18. Tridents have problems with the start on line 0. You can recompile your kernel without this option or you can try modifying syscons.c to have it start on line 1 or you can maybe use the vidcontrol program to modify your cursor size dynamically and get your cursor back. Steve -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- stever@babbage.cba.csuohio.edu "What's better than a free OS?" " A free OS with source." FreeBSD at freebsd.cdrom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------