no cursor/caret in console?

[pineacle]

boards work, well, but for some reason, I've got no text cursor (caret) in the shell/consoles.  (note I'm using HDMI outputs, not uart)

Is this normal? 

No. I have the same issue; its a minor annoyance, but I'm going to need to get to the bottom of it too-- I use the F1-F6 consoles regularly, and no cursor is a show stop on those ...

... things to try, console settings ... console font ... console type ... this may have something to do with the lack of a video driver which lenny is working on. Sorry, it hasn't been a high priority for me, so I haven't done any work on it to get to the root cause.

marcus

ok  at least I know I'm not alone  :-)

I was finaly able to get mate desktop working (tried for 2 days installing different desktops, but never noticed the disk resizing command before yesterday evening.) at least I get a blinking cursor there (and mouse copy/paste, yay).

I also use the f1-f6 consoles on the pine64.  They just feel proper here being so close to the metal.
We'll all be happy if someone finds the answer to this one I think