Subject: Re: wscons
To: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
From: Andy Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 12/08/1999 10:11:16
On 8 Dec 1999, Charles M. Hannum wrote:

> Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de> writes:
> 
> > btw, why is there that
> > #ifdef PCDISPLAY_SOFTCURSOR
> > 	scr->pcs.cursoron = 0;
> > #else
> > in vga.c:vga_init_screen()?
> > Shouldn't the screen come up with the cursor enabled?
> 
> The whole SOFTCURSOR implementation is... very twist{y,ed}.  It really
> needs to be redone, in particular to separate the notions of `cursor
> on in VT' and `cursor on in display', which are hopelessly intertwined
> right now.  If you stare at it too hard, your head will hurt.

As soon as I get the time.

- ad