Re: [FBDEV UPDATE] Newer patch.

[James Simmons]

> 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.

> 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.

> 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. 


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/