I too am having this issue. Did you ever find a fix for the cursor in the upper left corner? Seems like fbi is still running or using the framebuffer. Like it doesn't exit properly when done. Any help is appreciated.

Hi folks. I'm new to the board and new to Raspberry Pi. I am building a small mame machine using PiMame. I wanted to setup a boot screen / splash screen so I also used that fbi method and I am having the same blank screen issue after the splash screen is displayed. I was hoping someone had found a f...