Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:33:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, craigs@os.com, jab@rock.anchorage.net, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Slow Etherlink Message-ID: <199609180833.KAA13230@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960918173504.2777P-100000@sdev.blaze.net.au> from "David Nugent" at Sep 18, 96 05:48:55 pm
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In reply to David Nugent who wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Bruce Evans wrote:
>
> >>One thing I will say about Linux is that it has superior screen display
> >>performance. So, if what you are complaining about is screen redraw
> >>speed, Linux is much faster than FreeBSD.
> >
> >Really? Linux was 6-12 times slower last time I worked on speeding up
> >syscons.
Syscons is nearly as fast as the PC architecture allows for :)
It uses a totally different method of updating the screen than
all the other console driver in the "free" world (minix excluded)
> One problem I do have with the syscons driver, however, is the
> cursor. I'm not one who things much of the blocky cursor, especially
> since porting Crisp as an editor with it's neat ability to change
> the cursor size over virtual/real spaces - it needs to have the
> hardware cursor enabled (e.g. vidcontrol -c destructive) so the
> cursor size can change. The problem is, the screen updates are
> affected by enabling that, such that when typing at the shell
> prompt, you often don't see characters that are typed until you
> hit enter.
>
> Is this a known problem? I'm running 2.2-CURRENT if that is
Yes, it is, and it is on my TODO list...
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
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