On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:50:48PM +0100, James Simmons wrote:

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The cursor has changed from a nice underline to a solid white block. 

I seen the problem. Its the wrong color for the background color for the 
cursor. I haven't been able to figure out why it went wrong. The specs are 
not to clear on this.

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Not only that,
but the block is bigger than the font it is over (if I am on top of
adjacent letters, it covers the entire letter I am on, plus a couple of
pixels of the letter to the right).

Ug. That code is straight from the old driver. Will fix.

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In additition, the cursor now disappears while typing, and navigating
around (on the command line left and right, or even in an editor when
moving the cursor up and down). This disappearing while typing or
navigating is _really_ annoying. If I go left or right a lot, I have to
keep stopping to see where the cursor actually is.

I seen this problem last night with the NVIDIA fbdev driver. I think I 
know what the problem is. I will try a fix tonight. 

I noticed one thing, and that is that the mach64 used to use software
cursor it seems (I remember wondering why atyfb_cursor was never used
anywhere). It's now using the hw cursor.

Also, I notice with this new code that the random vertical shifting of
the console doesn't occur anymore like it does with current 2.6.0-test8
code. For as long as I can remember 2.6.0-test, and way back into
2.5.5x, this has been a problem with highly active console programs
(mutt, vim, etc...). Good to see it's going away :)

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