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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/vga-softcursor.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/vga-softcursor.rst index a663a745cff4..f52175457e60 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/vga-softcursor.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/vga-softcursor.rst @@ -4,15 +4,13 @@ Software cursor for VGA by Pavel Machek <pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> and Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> -Linux now has some ability to manipulate cursor appearance. Normally, you -can set the size of hardware cursor (and also work around some ugly bugs in -those miserable Trident cards [#f1]_. You can now play a few new tricks: -you can make your cursor look - -like a non-blinking red block, make it inverse background of the character it's -over or to highlight that character and still choose whether the original -hardware cursor should remain visible or not. There may be other things I have -never thought of. +Linux now has some ability to manipulate cursor appearance. Normally, +you can set the size of hardware cursor. You can now play a few new +tricks: you can make your cursor look like a non-blinking red block, +make it inverse background of the character it's over or to highlight +that character and still choose whether the original hardware cursor +should remain visible or not. There may be other things I have never +thought of. The cursor appearance is controlled by a ``<ESC>[?1;2;3c`` escape sequence where 1, 2 and 3 are parameters described below. If you omit any of them, @@ -48,8 +46,6 @@ third parameter Bit setting takes place before bit toggling, so you can simply clear a bit by including it in both the set mask and the toggle mask. -.. [#f1] see ``#define TRIDENT_GLITCH`` in ``drivers/video/vgacon.c``. - Examples -------- |
