Re: cannot turn blink-cursor-mode off on the console

[Gerd Moellmann]

Alex Schroeder <kensanata@yahoo.com> writes:

> On the Linux console, (blink-cursor-mode -1) has no effect -- the
> cursor keeps on blinking.  This is very annoying because I explicitly
> set my cursor to a solid red non-blinking cursor from my login shell.
> Entering Emacs resets this, and quitting Emacs leaves my cursor a
> blinking thin line.

Do I understand correctly that the cursor shape changes and starts
blinking when you enter Emacs, and it stays that way when you exit
Emacs?  (Sorry I'm running FreeBSD, so I can't reproduce this in the
first place). 

If that is the case, it has probably nothing to do with
blink-cursor-mode.  I'm not aware of anything that fiddles with the
cursor shape or hardware cursor blinking in Emacs.  Maybe there's
a problem with TERM setting?