From: Chris Heath I am still seeing a lot of cursors being left behind. It is not a race condition or anything -- in the TTY line editor, it happens about 50% of the time when you press backspace. What appears to be happening is the cursor is flashing twice as slowly as the driver thinks it is, so of course it's wrong half the time when it comes to erase the cursor. The patch below fixes it for me. drivers/video/softcursor.c | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/video/softcursor.c~cursor-flashing-fix drivers/video/softcursor.c --- 25/drivers/video/softcursor.c~cursor-flashing-fix 2003-08-16 14:01:15.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/video/softcursor.c 2003-08-16 14:01:15.000000000 -0700 @@ -74,6 +74,12 @@ int soft_cursor(struct fb_info *info, st if (info->cursor.image.data) info->fbops->fb_imageblit(info, &info->cursor.image); + + if (!info->cursor.enable) { + for (i = 0; i < size; i++) + dst[i] ^= info->cursor.mask[i]; + } + return 0; } _