console mode text cursor with graphics cursor?

[Uli Luckas]

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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