From 88dcb6c4113afe93a6c4891ec43bef6a17c83155 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 22:19:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] Set the vga cursor even when hidden Some visually impaired people use hardware devices which directly read the vga screen. When newt for instance asks to hide the cursor for better visual aspect, the kernel puts the vga cursor out of the screen, so that the cursor position can't be read by the hardware device. This is a great loss for such people. Here is a patch which uses the same technique as CUR_NONE for hiding the cursor while still moving it. Mario, you should apply it to the speakup kernel for access floppies asap. I'll submit a 2.4 patch too. Signed-off-by: samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/video/console/vgacon.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c index 56cd199605f4..274f90543e32 100644 --- a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c +++ b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c @@ -448,7 +448,8 @@ static void vgacon_cursor(struct vc_data *c, int mode) vgacon_scrolldelta(c, 0); switch (mode) { case CM_ERASE: - write_vga(14, (vga_vram_end - vga_vram_base - 1) / 2); + write_vga(14, (c->vc_pos - vga_vram_base) / 2); + vgacon_set_cursor_size(c->vc_x, 31, 30); break; case CM_MOVE: