From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 17 05:45:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA00860 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 05:45:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA00838; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 05:45:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA06482; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:45:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199809171245.OAA06482@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Flickering syscons In-Reply-To: <199809171230.FAA03061@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Sep 17, 98 05:30:19 am" To: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:45:25 +0200 (CEST) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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