From: Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:06:52 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] fbcon: Fix screen artifacts when moving cursor
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16-rc2~17
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9477e260b7ca3b6076b91eae15739383c508f3e2;p=linux-2.6

[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>
---

diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index f1d9cb7fea..0900d1dbee 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);
 }