Yellowdog 3.0.1 PPC - no visible cursor

[David C. Hacker, DVM]

On Jul 19, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Brian McKee wrote:
>
>> From: Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us>
>> This problem appears from time to time on OldWorld machines, and 
>> previous
>> posts to this list have said that it is caused by the screen depth 
>> setting
>> being incorrect. Since you have a Lombard, you probably already have 
>> in the
>> kernel arguments box of BootX an entry along the lines of
>> video=atyfb:vmode:14,cmode:32 so just change the 32 to 8 or if it's 
>> already
>> 8, try 32 or 24. HTH
>>
>
> Well - The Lombard is NewWorld, so I'm not using BootX and my 
> yaboot.conf as
> setup by the installer didn't pass any arguments along.  Where are 
> they?
> That being said -
> I setup and tried an entry with video="atyfb:vmode:14,cmode:24"
> and my 'red at that paticular time' cursor disappeared on reboot.
> Co-incidence likely since trying cmode:32 didn't change it.  Neither
> did rebooting again using my original  (no video arguments) entry or 
> cmode:8,
> or vmode 17 and cmode 24 :-(
>
> FWIW, the cursor is always visable during the bootloader part of boot 
> up,
> and booting OSX in verbose mode (Apple-V on boot) shows a nice white 
> block
> cursor.
>
Did you run ybin after you made the changes to your yaboot.conf file?  
If not then the changes weren't put on your bootstrap partition and in 
effect didn't happen.