On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 the mental interface of Antonino A. Daplas told: > On Monday 25 October 2004 06:46, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 20:22, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > > From: Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: linux-fbdev-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: [Linux-fbdev-users] (2.6.9-rc4|2.6.9|2.6.10-rc1) black cursor on > > > console [ppc platform] Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 11:25:57 +0200 > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am running 2.6.10-rc1 on my Apple AlBG4. gpm is started at boottime. > > > The mousecursor is black colored on vt's and can be used as a brush to > > > darken the screen. > > > > I know and told the guy to fwd to the list. I don't know what's up, there > > is no accel cursor in radeonfb so it must be the generic cursor code... > > I don't think gpm calls the console cursor code. It directly manipulates > the screen buffer via the TIOCLINUX ioctl. Also, softcursor does call > imageblit, so indirectly, it uses hardware acceleration. Maybe a problem > with one of the drawing functions? > > Elimar, can you try booting with 'noaccel' and see what happens?
$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.10-rc1-aragorn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc-Version 3.4.2 (Debian
3.4.2-3)) #1 Mon Oct 25 20:16:41 CEST 2004
$ dmesg | grep accel
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda5 ro noaccel
And no changes to the described behaviour :(
> >
> > I noticed that on the g5 here, the generic cursor code never worked
> > properly especially since James 2.6 rework. At boot, I get a flashing
> > cursor just below the linux logo that is obviously "corrupt" (a block of
> > random picxels of the size of a character), though it seems to fix itself
> > after the logo goes away.
>
> I just submitted a clean-up patch for the cursor code, but I'm not sure if
> that will help.
Where to find? I'll test it :)
Elimar
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