Re: reduce frequency of cursor blinking

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From: Dave Jones
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 12:38 pm

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:30:37AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
 > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:19:11 -0400
 > Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > Depending on CONFIG_HZ, we blink the cursor at 20,50,60 or 200Hz.
 > 
 > eh no, that's 5 times per second ...

Indeed. Still seems excessive though.
How about twice per second ?

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

diff --git a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
index 73813c6..7d9bae5 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ static void cursor_timer_handler(unsigned long dev_addr)
 	struct fbcon_ops *ops = info->fbcon_par;
 
 	schedule_work(&info->queue);
-	mod_timer(&ops->cursor_timer, jiffies + HZ/5);
+	mod_timer(&ops->cursor_timer, jiffies + HZ/2);
 }
 
 static void fbcon_add_cursor_timer(struct fb_info *info)
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reduce frequency of cursor blinking, Dave Jones, (Tue Oct 16, 11:19 am)
Re: reduce frequency of cursor blinking, Arjan van de Ven, (Tue Oct 16, 11:30 am)
Re: reduce frequency of cursor blinking, Dave Jones, (Wed Oct 17, 12:38 pm)