From: wong@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Jung) Subject: Re: cursor blink question Date: 29 Apr 1993 20:09:40 GMT
Vladimir Vukicevic (vladimir@intrepid.com) wrote:
: In article <1993Apr26.141506.3792@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
: >winfrdw@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (Rob de Winter) writes:
: >>There's certainly no way to stop it from blinking. Why do you need a
: >>slower cursor anyway ?
: >
: >Blinking cursors are unpleasant, at least in some people's eyes.
: >
: >Since all console output goes is controlled by the console driver
: >(isn't it?), it might be possible to turn of the hardware cursor
: >altogether and do a non-blinking software cursor by inverting the
: >character at the cursor. This scheme doesn't work very well under
: >MS-LOSS, since no self-respecting program writes via the operating
: >system.
: >
: You can do the same thing with cursors under MS-DOS; however, you still
: can't turn the blink off. This is because the cursor is controlled by
: the BIOS. However, I have not found a way to tell the bios to stop blinking
: the cursor. So, unless Linux completely bypasses the BIOS, and reads raw
: hardware character codes & does its own text-mode IO to the video card, I
: don't think that there's a way. However, I hope that someone can prove me
: wrong, since I also hate the blinking cursor.
: If it really bothers you, here's a quick fix: use X. The cursor doesn't blink
: in an xterm. :-)
As far as I know the normal BIOS is unused by linux.
Just for booting you need a bit of the bIOS :-)
Gruss
Wolfgang