No cursor in console

Hello,

I experience problem with no cursor at linux console, using kernel
2.6.11.2 and frame-buffer? There is no cursor nor on bash prompt, nor
in editors like mcedit, nano, vi? How can I solve this problem?

[email]tomas.vilda@gmail.com[/email] wrote in news:1110654922.436497.72410
@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:
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> Hello,
>
> I experience problem with no cursor at linux console, using kernel
> 2.6.11.2 and frame-buffer? There is no cursor nor on bash prompt, nor
> in editors like mcedit, nano, vi? How can I solve this problem?[/color]

I really don't know, but you might want to post your distro information so
that someone with a similar system might be able to help you.

--
~Ohmster
ohmster at newsguy dot com

Spake [email]tomas.vilda@gmail.com[/email]:[color=blue]
> I experience problem with no cursor at linux console, using kernel
> 2.6.11.2 and frame-buffer? There is no cursor nor on bash prompt, nor
> in editors like mcedit, nano, vi? How can I solve this problem?[/color]

Simple solution: Switch to another console (Ctrl+Alt+F1 through F6), log
in and run "killall -9 bash" as root. That should terminate any
applications hogging that console (it will also log everyone out).

If you can login but the display is broken, try logging in from another
machine (you have SSH running, right?) starting X as the root user (just
"X", or possible "X :1"). Then type Ctrl+C to kill X and (hopefully)
restore your console display.

From the console, you can try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to restart the machine
safely. If all else fails, turn it off at the wall.

PS: With some hardware+software configurations, X won't restore your
console correctly when you leave / terminate X. I don't know how to fix
that short of restarting the machine.

--
Trent Buck, Student Errant
Stubborness will get you where self-esteem won't let you go.
-- Queen of Swords

My system is "linux from scratch" :) I'm not running nor xwindows
system, nor ssh server, rebooting computer doesn't help, if I disable
frame-buffer everything is O.K.

Spake [email]tomas.vilda@gmail.com[/email]:[color=blue]
> My system is "linux from scratch" :) I'm not running nor xwindows
> system, nor ssh server, rebooting computer doesn't help, if I disable
> frame-buffer everything is O.K.[/color]

Oh I see. So by `cursor' you actually mean `cursor' :-)

Sorry, can't help you there. Can't you change the cursor style with
VT100 codes? Or possibly fiddling the with console character set.

--
Trent Buck, Student Errant
Asked whether Microsoft could threaten Linux, Torvalds said: "What can
they do? What is the Microsoft threat? They certainly can't program
around us. The only other thing they can do is marketing, and sure, let
them try."

Hi all

I think, to get a cursor in the console you'll need either 'selection'
or 'gpm' running (gpm being the more favourable).

See: [url]http://linux.schottelius.org/gpm/[/url]

Cheers
--Colin Horne

Spake Colin Horne:[color=blue]
> I think, to get a cursor in the console you'll need either 'selection'
> or 'gpm' running (gpm being the more favourable).[/color]

In this context I think cursor means the flashing underline / block that
shows where text will be inserted if you type. The thing controlled by
a pointing device (e.g. mouse) is called a pointer.

I think the OP is saying that the console is completely blank when
running framebuffer (e.g. vga=790), but not in normal 80x25 mode (i.e.
vga=normal).

--
Trent Buck, Student Errant
Of course they're pallid and mushroom-like, Howard!
They're MUSHROOMS! -- Gahan Wilson, on H.P. Lovecraft

Hi Trent

Good point :-)