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cvidix tricks, based on a patch by Reimar
author diego
date Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:20:28 +0000
parents 82733372759f
children ee53e4d326f7
files DOCS/xml/en/video.xml
diffstat 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- 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 @@
   <option>-vo mga</option> or <option>-vo fbdev</option>. nVidia cards however
   are able to output truly graphical video on a real text console. See the
   <link linkend="vidix-nvidia">nvidia_vid</link> section for more information.
+  To rid of text on the borders and the blinking cursor, try something like
+  </simpara>
+
+  <screen>setterm -cursor off > /dev/tty9</screen>
+
+  <simpara>
+  (assuming <systemitem>tty9</systemitem> is unused so far) and then
+  switch to <systemitem>tty9</systemitem>.
+  On the other hand, <option>-colorkey 0</option> should give you a video
+  running in the "background", though this depends on the colorkey
+  functionality to work right.
   </simpara></listitem>
 <listitem><simpara>
   You can use VIDIX subdevice which was applied to several video output