After bootup the virtual console cursor is invisible?

[temach]

Fresh install no X server, no GUI.

Unfortunately the cursor is not shown in the terminal.

You can type and delete text, but the character under the cursor position is not at all highlighted.

 

I can make it shown with adding something like  "echo -e '\e[?16;0;200c' " (colors it orange) to my bash prompt, but in then I start vim and the cursor is still hidden!

I can set colorcolumn and colorrow to work around this in vim, but it seems that the problem lies deeper.

 

So I looked around and found the setterm command. It works for setting my background and foreground colors, however when I do

"setterm --cursor on" or "setterm --blink on" nothing happens, cursor is still not shown.

 

So I looked around even more! And found that the virtual console can be configured in kernel boot options. The options are documented here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 

 

And there is the option "vt.global_cursor_default= " which looks promising.

 

BUT! It looks like Armbian does not use grub. (no /etc/default/grub folder)

 

So the question is:

1) Is there any way to set kernel boot parameters?

OR

2) Is there any other way to solve this?

[zador.blood.stained]

This display driver was broken regarding cursor, it is fixed in latest beta kernel (you can install manually linux-image-sun8i... .deb from here) and it will be fixed in the next stable release (in ~1-2 months)

[temach]

OH man!

Thank you so much, I spend so much time on this! Well at least it will be fixed soon.