vc: Add support for hiding the cursor when creating VTs

Add support for setting a global default for whether or not a visible
cursor should be enabled when creating VCs. The default will be to do so,
unless overridden by the user at boot time or by a driver.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258143251-5818-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Matthew Garrett
2009-11-13 15:14:11 -05:00
committed by H. Peter Anvin
parent d9b263528e
commit f6c06b6807
4 changed files with 24 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -2729,6 +2729,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
newly opened terminals.
vt.global_cursor_default=
[VT]
Format=<-1|0|1>
Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
cursors, 1 will display them.
waveartist= [HW,OSS]
Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>