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    [PATCH] Set the vga cursor even when hidden · 88dcb6c4
    Samuel Thibault authored
    Some visually impaired people use hardware devices which directly read
    the vga screen. When newt for instance asks to hide the cursor for
    better visual aspect, the kernel puts the vga cursor out of the screen,
    so that the cursor position can't be read by the hardware device. This
    is a great loss for such people.
    
    Here is a patch which uses the same technique as CUR_NONE for hiding the
    cursor while still moving it.
    
    Mario, you should apply it to the speakup kernel for access floppies
    asap. I'll submit a 2.4 patch too.
    
    Signed-off-by: samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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