From: Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>
  To  : andreas.beck@ggi-project.org
  Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 08:09:04 -0700

Re: kgicon troubles - mode switching (and more)

On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 02:51:45PM +0200, becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de wrote:
> > However supposedly one can do echo -ne '\033[?2c' to get a "normal"
> > blinking underline---comes back with a white blinking block on kgicon,
> > which is supposedly what \033[?6c is supposed to return (and does)
> > 
> > Does kgicon only support a block cursor at the moment (or at the moment
> > of my last snapshot?)
> 
> That can't be a kgicon issue. It must be a generic fbcon issue, as the way
> that cursor works, is that the fb layer in the kernel draws the blinking
> block.

Then it's a kgicon+fb issue, it works fine with matroxfb.  =>

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