Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:45:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Flickering syscons Message-ID: <199809171245.OAA06482@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199809171230.FAA03061@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Sep 17, 98 05:30:19 am"
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In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who wrote: > As you know, the SC_BAD_FLICKER option appears to have been added in > order to turn off an optimization(?) which causes flickering on certain > screens, like my Libretto for example. :-) > > I and many others believe that anything which causes a potential pessimization > should be turned OFF by default, rather than on, so that POLA is obeyed > for those who would otherwise be rather puzzled and annoyed by bad behavior > being a new default. > > What say you and Kazu to these diffs.. First I dont like the new option name DO_FLICKER ?? that sounds a bit harsh... Second we need to find out WHY it flickers now in any case, somehow it has found a new way of introducing that again :( I would rather that options SC_BAD_FLICKER was added to GENERIC, and thats it, then we only need to find out why it doesn't work anymore... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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