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?

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)

OH man!

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