Re: Disappearing cursor with vesafb

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> allthewhile my red block cursors are unaffected. The following things 
> instigate the disappearance of my cursor:  Switching to X and back to 
> console, and any other kind of switching to a graphical sort of mode, 
> be it framebuffer apps like graphical links, mplayer, etc.  Also the 
> console screen blanking after 10 or however many minutes screensaver 
> type of deal.  The thing is that it is somewhat random where I can 
> switch to X and back a few times and all is well and then the next 
> time the cursor disappears.  Or maybe the first time I switch to X 
> and back the cursor will disappear, etc.  On some rarer occasions i 
> think it happens even if i do nothing more than switch from a vterm 
> with a blinking underscore cursor to one with a red block and then 
> back.
> 

I see it, too, and it was in 2.6.[0..4] at least.
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