Re: Console with the recent kernels

Martin Mares (mj@albireo.ucw.cz)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 11:14:05 +0200


> Using the recent kernels (2.1.10[8,9]), I have noticed the following two
> minor changes in behavior:
>
> 1° I can't move the mouse cursor freely any more while doing scrollback :
> it is as if there were an invisible barrier beyond which the mouse cursor
> couldn't go further. With the kernel 2.1.106, I can move it as far as I
> scroll back. I am using ps2 mouse driver as module.
>
> 2° With the earlier kernels, after doing scrollback, when I went back to
> the initial screen by doing Shift+PageDown, the console cursor
> reappeared spontaneously. It dosen't any more.
>
> These may well not be problems in themselvs but merely features.

Do you use VGA console or VGA frame buffer?

Have a nice fortnight

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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