DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Linux Kernel 2.4.29, in a do-it-yourself linux box, equipped with > an AGP Voodoo 3 2000 card, tdfx framebuffer support. I boot in vga > mode 0x0f05, with parameter 'video=tdfx:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and I get > (correctly) 100x37 character grid. All of that is correct. What is > not correct is the characters attributes, namely the 'blink' > attribute.
Blinking a whole screen of text is much more expensive than a block cursor. You'll want hardware support, e.g. some kind of double-buffering or using 240 colors just for that purpose in a 256 color mode. (I would not implement that.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
