Hello Harvey, [...] > >the cursor might be set to the same color as the background and > >is therefore invisible or simply set to invisible mode. To make the > >cursor non-blinking, visible and white enter > > > > echo -e '\033[?17;0;500c' > > > Thanks, Joe, this seems to have done the trick--I now have my white > flashing cursor.
:-) Add the line to /etc/bash.bashrc or ~/.bashrc to have it executed automatically when bash is started up. > >If this helps take a look at the kernel documentation for details, > >the relevant part is "Software cursor for vga" (file VGA-softcursor.txt) > > > I'm embarassed to say so, but I couldn't find doc specifcally for > kernel. I looked in /usr/doc & /usr/share/doc No need to embarrassed, everyone has to learn stuff at some point. The kernel documentation indeed resides in a non-standard directory. Installing the kernel-source (package kernel-source-version) installs a tarball named kernel-source-version.tar.bz2 in /usr/src which includes the kernel documentation. [...] Joe -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ Neu: Preissenkung für MMS und FreeMMS! http://www.gmx.net
