From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 6 10:01:01 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ABA6106566C for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 10:01:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from demelier.david@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DED6E8FC50 for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 10:01:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb32 with SMTP id 32so3922188wyb.13 for ; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:00:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=/S8OtAo0E4iaXI1bEwcLY8GH2/hrC+SMRc1Uaz5BFd0=; b=StYMGhkOEiZE357IgH+iEuvT5JTUcGaVrmm70Gbc1Rpmy6eU/GuDjA5EEH9KgHNhp9 i8RKkPBtJ9jtFk4y96EubOvvk6qiLWvybdiW+suZbgsdL5rfFOEGM14iyKBgx8hbq3ak eDk8SDGGJC0i5QhjBD6A14OtUlcbEcpXa858I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=xd6cuOH4coJQXttT+qHwGP9j9qgjc9tZtEMKyg5sT0PsYz2C56/cOtBxiGuztp2cnk wrd1jJ7BS6E1+JSVLpS1O74KqxZkIUnfr9oeHowD/fHbk3iAtDGsaqtqY1e9J3RWgIdo t1hw6ZDvqEUvRUmZCyxu4aelgIflY9/3XH0Bc= Received: by 10.227.201.8 with SMTP id ey8mr2301311wbb.200.1299405659706; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:00:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from Melon.malikania.fr (65.21.102-84.rev.gaoland.net [84.102.21.65]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w25sm1142758wbd.5.2011.03.06.02.00.58 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:00:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D735B28.3050003@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 11:00:08 +0100 From: David Demelier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110302 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block References: <4D727264.7040609@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching between ttys takes 5 seconds with radeon hd 5670 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:01:01 -0000 On 05/03/2011 19:03, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, David Demelier wrote: > >> I've got a brand new radeon hd 5670, when I switch between ttys it >> takes about 5 seconds to refresh (to show the next tty) > > Do you mean switching between text consoles (ttyv) or between a text > console and X? > > Switching between X and a console, or particularly back from a console > to X, is slow unless you have moused_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. > >> Is this due to the lack of KMS support in FreeBSD? > > Probably not. I recompiled the kernel with the VESA stuff, it's faster again now. Don't know if it only appears with GENERIC then. -- David Demelier