Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow
On 8 February 2014 08:49, Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: kfreebsd-image-11.0-0-amd64
> Version: 11.0~svn260666-1
> Severity: important
>
> With Newcons it becomes practically impossible to use the console. When
> using the default VESA driver, both VT switching and text scrolling
> become terribly slow. Either of these operations takes almost 1 s!
On what hardware (or VM) do you experience this? On my Thinkpad X220
the console is acceptably performant in both VGA-mode (at boot) and
i915 (after starting X), with a FreeBSD-CURRENT kernel from the end of
January. In VirtualBox it is noticeably pokey for me, but certainly
not on the order of one second for a scroll.
Also note that the vt(9) VGA driver doesn't implement VESA modes -
it's original VGA mode only.
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