bug#20922: blinking in linux console

[Stefan Kangas]

Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> writes:

> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>   3) you can echo 0 > /sys/class/graphics/fbcon/cursor_blink.   this fails,
>> because i don't know, it just fails.
>
> This method works for me. i'm running Emacs 24.5.2 with Linux kernel 3.16.0-4 
> on
> Debian Jessie x86_64.
>
> Do you get no error messages when you issue the above command (as root, of
> course)? Does subsequently doing:
>
> $ cat /sys/class/graphics/fbcon/cursor_blink
>
> produce "0" as the output?

I don't think Emacs controls the appearance of the Linux console, so
this is not a bug in Emacs.  I'm therefore closing this bug.  If
that's incorrect, please reopen.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas