From 9477e260b7ca3b6076b91eae15739383c508f3e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 03:06:52 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] fbcon: Fix screen artifacts when moving cursor
When moving the cursor by writing to /dev/vcs*, the old cursor image is not
erased. Fix by hiding the cursor first before moving the cursor to the new
position.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
drivers/char/vt.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index f1d9cb7feae65..0900d1dbee599 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -3213,6 +3213,7 @@ void getconsxy(struct vc_data *vc, unsigned char *p)
void putconsxy(struct vc_data *vc, unsigned char *p)
{
+ hide_cursor(vc);
gotoxy(vc, p[0], p[1]);
set_cursor(vc);
}
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