From owner-cvs-all Thu Sep 17 05:12:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA26284 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 05:12:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA26271; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 05:12:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrungnir.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrungnir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.72]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id OAA05712; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:11:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrungnir.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:11:31 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Mark Murray , sos@FreeBSD.ORG, abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki), dfr@nlsystems.com, dfr@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/isa scvidctl.c videoio.c videoio.h syscons.c syscons.h src/sys/alpha/conf files.alpha src/sys/al References: <27494.906033722@time.cdrom.com> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 17 Sep 1998 14:11:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Thu, 17 Sep 1998 05:02:02 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id FAB26274 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > > Another problem; You have removed SC_BAD_FLICKER. The screen on my laptop > > (Libretto) now flickers something horrible when I use the mouse. > Ah, that's how to turn that off! :-) Mine does it too. We should > probably revert whatever change caused this to happen by default since > it's very evil and it didn't use to happen. Telling people to rebuild > kernels with "PLEASE_DONT_FLICKER_AND_DRIVE_ME_CRAZY" is not much of > an option since most folks don't RTFM anyway and they'll just conclude > (rightly) that our console driver is broken. I agree that "flicker countermeasures" should be the default, but please leave in a knob for turning them off when they're not needed. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no