Subject: VGA Cursor weirdness on i386
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Rick Byers <rb-netbsd@BigScaryChildren.net>
List: current-users
Date: 08/05/2001 15:54:45
Hi,

When I updated my source and rebuilt my kernel yesterday, my cursor
started behaving differently (on i386).  Instead of a two line underscore
style, it was bigger (4 lines I think).  When booting, the cursor changes
from the default hardware cursor immediatly after loading the kernel (it
is normal in the boot loader).  I do not use "options
PCDISPLAY_SOFTCURSOR".

I'm guessing something has changed since July 1 - when I last updated my
kernel source.  I checked the cvs log for a bunch of vga*.c and
pcdisplay*.c files and saw no possibly relevant changes.  Anybody have any
idea what it might have been?

The strange thing is that when I swith terminals to one of my 80x50
terminals, the cursor goes back to a normal hardware cursor and stays that
way (even if I switch back to an 80x25 screen) until I reboot...

I've been using a patch to fix font loading on ATI cards, but its been
working fine for months.  I tried turning it off and cleaning/recompiling
the relevant kernel objects but it made no difference, so I'm assuming its
not responsible.

Any suggestions for files I might look for changes in would be
appreciated.
Thanks,
	Rick