Re: Penguin logo and scrollback

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:20:07 +0100


Hi!

> I just got 2.1.129-pre2 with the Matrox framebuffer device, and I have
> two questions about it, which I do not seem to be able to find docs for:
>
> 1. The penguins are somewhat neat, but they make scrollback of the
> bootup messages impossible (all you see is a pair of penguin
> heads.) This is, IMNSHO, not acceptable. How do I make this more
> reasonable?

Scrollback is not there because scrollback is vga text-mode
hack. Penguin logo does not do anything with it.

> 2. The cursor is a white, flashing box. I'd much rather have a
> different-coloured, non-flashing box. (Flashing is annoying, and
> when the flashing thing is a box it becomes flat-out obnoxious.)

Look at Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt and play a bit.

Pavel

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