# HG changeset patch
# User diego
# Date 1162318828 0
# Node ID 98e477485b29b02bd8a3edf44cdf49e655eecf66
# Parent 82733372759fc3c1300b15e7b7e8595911804ae2
cvidix tricks, based on a patch by Reimar
diff -r 82733372759f -r 98e477485b29 DOCS/xml/en/video.xml
--- a/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml Tue Oct 31 17:55:54 2006 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml Tue Oct 31 18:20:28 2006 +0000
@@ -1386,6 +1386,17 @@
or . nVidia cards however
are able to output truly graphical video on a real text console. See the
nvidia_vid section for more information.
+ To rid of text on the borders and the blinking cursor, try something like
+
+
+ setterm -cursor off > /dev/tty9
+
+
+ (assuming tty9 is unused so far) and then
+ switch to tty9.
+ On the other hand, should give you a video
+ running in the "background", though this depends on the colorkey
+ functionality to work right.
You can use VIDIX subdevice which was applied to several video output