NetBSD Problem Report #13387

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Date: Thu,  5 Jul 2001 09:14:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: thorpej@shagadelic.org
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To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: VGA driver does not display cursor on PICA S3 VGA
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>Number:         13387
>Category:       port-arc
>Synopsis:       VGA driver does not display cursor on PICA S3 VGA
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-arc-maintainer
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 05 16:13:00 +0000 2001
>Closed-Date:    Thu Jul 05 16:42:33 +0000 2001
>Last-Modified:  Thu Jul 05 17:09:01 +0000 2001
>Originator:     Jason R Thorpe
>Release:        NetBSD-current, July 5, 2001
>Organization:
Zembu Labs, Inc.
>Environment:

System: NEC Image RISCstation (Acer PICA clone)
Architecture: mipsel
Machine: arc
>Description:
	The hardware cursor does not work w/ the VGA driver on the
	PICA S3 VGA.  It apparently does work if the old "pccons"
	driver (the hacked version in the arc port).

>How-To-Repeat:
	Boot a PICA-type system with a kernel that uses the VGA/wscons
	driver.

>Fix:
	Not provided.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Cc: port-arc@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: port-arc/13387: VGA driver does not display cursor on PICA S3 VGA
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 09:35:54 -0700

 On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:14:52AM -0700, thorpej@shagadelic.org wrote:

 I think I know what the problem is.  I notice that the ALI ARC firmware
 does not show the VGA cursor -- so, either it has not initialized the
 cursor shape, or is has set it to "not visible".  The VGA driver uses
 the pcdisplay cursor routines, which does not appear to reinitialize
 the cursor shape.

 I'm about to test a kernel which initializes the cursor shape to an
 underline, and if it works, I will commit the change.

 -- 
         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: thorpej 
State-Changed-When: Thu Jul 5 09:41:13 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed by pcdisplay_subr.c,v 1.17 

From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
To: thorpej@zembu.com
Cc: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org, port-arc@netbsd.org, tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp
Subject: Re: port-arc/13387: VGA driver does not display cursor on PICA S3 VGA
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 01:45:18 +0900 (JST)

 In article <20010705093554.A7003@dr-evil.shagadelic.org>
 thorpej@zembu.com writes:

 > I think I know what the problem is.  I notice that the ALI ARC firmware
 > does not show the VGA cursor -- so, either it has not initialized the
 > cursor shape, or is has set it to "not visible".  The VGA driver uses
 > the pcdisplay cursor routines, which does not appear to reinitialize
 > the cursor shape.

 How about options PCDISPLAY_SOFTCURSOR (which is also used by prep)?
 ---
 Izumi Tsutsui
 tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp

From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Cc: port-arc@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: port-arc/13387: VGA driver does not display cursor on PICA S3 VGA
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 09:45:58 -0700

 On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:35:54AM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

  > I'm about to test a kernel which initializes the cursor shape to an
  > underline, and if it works, I will commit the change.

 Fix committed.

 -- 
         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>

From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
Cc: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org, port-arc@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: port-arc/13387: VGA driver does not display cursor on PICA S3 VGA
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 10:10:41 -0700

 On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:45:18AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:

  > How about options PCDISPLAY_SOFTCURSOR (which is also used by prep)?

 That's fine, too, but the hardware cursor should also work :-)

 -- 
         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
>Unformatted:

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