On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 06:20:50PM +0100, Miernik wrote: > Switching between X and virtual console is very slow, (with > Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc). > > Is it possible to have it swich as fast as is switching between > virtual consoles? > > If I set exactly the same video mode on my text console and X (I mean > resolution, timings, etc to be the same, one text and the other > graphics mode of course) will it switch fast? It won't have to change > video modes. Depends what's being slow. It may be that your monitor blanks for a while during a mode change to avoid stressing the scanning circuits - most do something like this. If you set your text and X modes to use *exactly* the same timings you will probably avoid this, though there will probably be a glitch in the train of sync pulses which might cause it to blank for a while anyway. If it's that your graphics card is taking time to regenerate the X display, it's a case of get a faster card sort of thing. > Or maybe if I install a framebuffer and run both text and X console > through a framebuffer it will be fast? Only if your graphics card has enormous overhead switching between text and graphic modes, which is unlikely to be the case. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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