RE: console mode text cursor with graphics cursor?

Uli:
Fantastic. That did it!
I added ioctl(0, 0x4b3a,0x1) to the initDevice function as you suggested
(not sure which device is being used, because /dev/fb0 is opened, and you
can't use that), and I no longer get the text mode problems (as an added
bonus, the text mode debugging messages don't show up on the screen).

Thanks!
Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uli Luckas [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:56 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Dan Grunberg
> Subject: Re: console mode text cursor with graphics cursor?
> 
> On Monday, 28. July 2008, Dan Grunberg wrote:
> > I have compiled Qt3 and Kong/E to run without X-windows (conf below).
> >
> > When I run the executable, I get a browser and cursor that look mostly
> OK -
> > the problem is I also get a text-mode cursor that moves around in sync
> with
> >
> > the graphics cursor and overwrites the browser with text-size blocks.
> It
> > looks like I have to disable text-mode or console-output somehow.  I
> boot
> > linux with vga=0x307 on the kernel line with grub.
> >
> The vga mode should not matter here.
> 
> > The browser actually seems to work (I can visit different sites) - the
> main
> > problem is the overwriting the screen with a text mode cursor.
> >
> >
> I don't know for sure about Qt3 but Qt2 fails to switch the console to
> graphics mode. Maybe a call like this in Qt3's equivalent to
> QLinuxFbScreen::initDevice() can cure your problems:
> ioctl(tty, KDSETMODE, KD_GRAPHICS);
> 
> On shutdown (QLinuxFbScreen::shutdownDevice() for Qt2) you should switch
> the
> mode back to a saved value or just to KD_TEXT.
> 
> regards,
> Uli
> 
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