Re: console in 11.0-ALPHA4

From: Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 14:57:18 -0400
On 20 June 2016 at 14:29, Ernie Luzar <luzar722_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I found the cause of this boot time message
> "vicontrol: setting cursor type: Inappropriate ioctl for device"
>
> In my rc.conf I had this statement
> vidcontrol -c blink -h 250
> From testing it seems that vt does not handle the "blink" option for causing
> the cursor to blink. Is there a vt option to enable cursor  blinking

I've submitted two PRs for the issues you reported here:
Bug 210413 - vidcontrol -c <normal|blink|destructive> does not work with vt(4)
Bug 210415 - vidcontrol -h <history size> does not work with vt(4) (edit)

There is currently no option to enable cursor blinking.
Received on Mon Jun 20 2016 - 16:57:39 UTC

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