From: Michal Januszewski Currently even when the cursor is disabled (`setterm -cursor off`), it is still repainted as a black rectangle the size of a single char. This can be seen, for example, by chvt'ing to a free tty, disabling the cursor and doing `dd if=3D/dev/urandom of=3D/dev/fb0`. The patch changes this behaviour by avoiding painting anything when the cursor is disabled. Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/video/console/fbcon.c~dont-repaint-the-cursor-when-it-is-disabled drivers/video/console/fbcon.c --- devel/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c~dont-repaint-the-cursor-when-it-is-disabled 2005-07-25 19:44:55.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c 2005-07-25 19:44:55.000000000 -0700 @@ -275,7 +275,8 @@ static void fb_flashcursor(void *private if (!vc || !CON_IS_VISIBLE(vc) || fbcon_is_inactive(vc, info) || - registered_fb[con2fb_map[vc->vc_num]] != info) + registered_fb[con2fb_map[vc->vc_num]] != info || + vc_cons[ops->currcon].d->vc_deccm != 1) return; acquire_console_sem(); p = &fb_display[vc->vc_num]; _