> > Is there still a cursor?
>
> NO.
That's... bad.
The tool I'd need to debug this (fbset) is not available in Guix.
And my guix git checkout is a little under construction.
So can you please try to guix package -f the attached file?
Then please run fbset.
Does it work? What does it say?
(use-modules (guix packages) (guix download) (guix build-system gnu) (guix licenses) (gnu packages bison) (gnu packages flex))
(package
(name "fbset")
(version "2.1")
(source (origin
(method url-fetch)
(uri (string-append "http://users.telenet.be/geertu/Linux/fbdev/";
name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
(sha256
(base32
"080wnisi0jq7dp0jcwdp83rq8q8s3kw41vc712516xbv4jq4mzs0"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(arguments
`(#:tests? #f
#:phases
(modify-phases %standard-phases
(add-after 'unpack 'patch-installer
(lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
(let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out")))
(mkdir-p out)
(mkdir-p (string-append out "/bin"))
(mkdir-p (string-append out "/man"))
(mkdir-p (string-append out "/man/man5"))
(mkdir-p (string-append out "/man/man8"))
(substitute* "Makefile"
(("/usr/sbin") "/usr/bin")
(("/usr") out)
(("mknod ") "echo "))
#t)))
(delete 'configure))))
(native-inputs
`(("bison" ,bison)
("flex" ,flex)))
(home-page "https://www.gnu.org/software/linux-libre/";)
(synopsis "Framebuffer device maintenance program")
(description "@code{fbset} can be used to set the screen resolution
and virtual terminal association of a Framebuffer.")
(license gpl2))
