How to stop the cursor of emacs blinking in console?

[Gautam Gopalakrishnan]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:44:39 -0800
loader <loader at www.kuaitech.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:03:27AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > loader <loader at www.kuaitech.com> writes:
> > 
> > > I use FreeBSD5.2.1-RC2, and emacs21. How can I stop the cursor
> > > blinking in console?
> > 
> > I thought the default was that it didn't do that on the console...
> > 
> > Check out the blink-* variables; 
> > I think that a .emacs setting of 
> > (blink-cursor-mode nil) 
> > should ensure the disabling of the blinking cursor.
> 
> Thank you for your reply. blink-cursor-mode doesn't work in FreeBSD
> console, it only work in X, because emacs draws the cursor in X
> itself. I don't know why it blinks in console.

I don't know if this will help.

/etc/rc.conf:
cursor="blink"      # cursor type {normal|blink|destructive} (or NO).

Then
/etc/rc.d/syscons restart

Gautam