Subject: Re: The Black cursor problem
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Sun Sep 02 2001 - 04:13:17 MDT
I guess I need to retract my statement below regarding installation of
some mystery package solving the case of the black cursor. I needed to
boot into Mac OS earlier this evening and when I booted back to Linux
I again had a black console cursor. A bit of digging through news groups
didn't turn up much other than one message that implied this problem is
unique to late 2.2.x kernels and is more or less random.
There are some escape sequences that can be used to manipulate cursor
appearance, but I have not yet found a setting that results in a simple
white cursor. See
http://groups.google.com/groups?q="%5B%3F17%3B0:64c"&hl=en&safe=off&rnum=1&selm=92rak2%24h8b%241%40news1.Radix.Net
for a more information.
Jim
Jim Cole's bits of Sat, 1 Sep 2001 translated to:
>Paul J. Lucas's bits of Sat, 1 Sep 2001 translated to:
>
>> So now it seems that I too have the "black cursor in console
>> mode" problem. I've not seen any solutions, however. Has
>> there been one?
>
>This is probably of minimal help, but my experience indicates that there
>is a package, not included in the Base Install, that fixed the problem.
>Due to constraints on free space, I did a Base Install and then manually
>added the extra packages that I needed. Before adding extra packages, I
>was back to a black cursor. Afterward, the cursor behaved correctly.
>
>Sorry I can't provide more useful information, but I will let you know if
>I managed to track down the culprit.
>
>
>Jim
>
>
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