06-28-2016, 06:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-28-2016, 06:21 AM by MarkHaysHarris777.)
(06-27-2016, 01:53 PM)longsleep Wrote: Sure can be fixed. But why anyone wants to use the fb console is beyond me. SSH in, use a desktop or UART.
hi longsleep; ... been thinking about this last night. Some of the reason has to something to do with history, and some of the reason has something to do with work patterns based on that history.
Back in the day (1991) Linus Torvalds was the first person to work on the fbcon. In fact, it was one of the very first pieces he put into the kernel. He was not so much interested in creating an OS for the 386/486 he was mostly interested in building himself a set of tools (a console mostly) for accessing the unix machines @ the university at Helsinki.
Many of us (admittedly grey-beards) have been booting into the CLI and using the fbcon (me-- all six of them, one or two of them running screen with some extra consoles !). Don't get me wrong, that does not mean that I don't want to boot my computers into a gui from time to time... but mostly (all of the PIs at the moment) boot into the CLI from where I use the fb consoles (what some of the rest of us call virtual consoles ).
I realize the work this might be for you. You DO want to be remembered for the person who put the kernel on the PineA64 for gnu+linux! You DO NOT want to be remembered as the guy who invented the cursorless fbcon!
Think about it for a minute... an fbcon is completely pointless; why even have it ! (let alone six of them)
The fbcon must support a cursor. I know you hate hearing that, but just sleep on it for a few days.
best wishes,
marcus