[Linux-fbdev-users] Re: intelfb on 82852/855GM and cursor problem

[Stanislav S. <sse...@cs...>]

Hi

>> I think you don"t have to set it by hand but enable in menuconfig Device Driver
>> / Graphics Support / Console Display driver support / Video mode selection
>> support.

Agree, but I have this turned on:

#
# Console display driver support
#
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_FONTS is not set
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y

It doesn't help

>> the cursor was killed - restore it !!
>> 
>> and there is no cursor in console (without X started). I tried turning off 
>> hardware cursor support, didn"t help, could you suggest what to do next?
>> 
> It"s caused by X which silently change the hw cursor (and don"t reinit it) . If
> you turn off hw cursor the message will go off. And yes there a cursor in console,
> the blinking underscore at the bottom of your window :-)

:-) If it was so easy...
I don't start X at all and I tried turning off the hardware cursor - how can it be
caused by X if it never starts? There is no cursor from the very booting.