From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 25 05:36:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88F6F16A41C; Wed, 25 May 2005 05:36:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F6843D48; Wed, 25 May 2005 05:36:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from beastie.frontfree.net (unknown [219.239.99.7]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E1F1EB3BDA; Wed, 25 May 2005 13:36:35 +0800 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost.frontfree.net [127.0.0.1]) by beastie.frontfree.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0013A131195; Wed, 25 May 2005 13:36:31 +0800 (CST) Received: from beastie.frontfree.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (beastie.frontfree.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31950-05; Wed, 25 May 2005 13:36:24 +0800 (CST) Received: from [10.217.12.87] (unknown [61.135.152.194]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by beastie.frontfree.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 610BD131661; Wed, 25 May 2005 13:36:21 +0800 (CST) From: Xin LI To: Eric Kjeldergaard In-Reply-To: References: <20050522112612.GA37841@frontfree.net> <20050523003843.GO850@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <1116815005.838.3.camel@spirit> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-VjWMJfzYjdDfrTH76MYS" Organization: The FreeBSD Simplified Chinese Project Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 13:36:15 +0800 Message-Id: <1116999375.731.7.camel@spirit> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at frontfree.net X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 25 May 2005 11:57:16 +0000 Cc: Jeremie Le Hen , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, delphij@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CALL FOR TESTERS] VESA High Resolution Console support from DragonFly X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 05:36:38 -0000 --=-VjWMJfzYjdDfrTH76MYS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Eric, =E5=9C=A8 2005-05-25=E4=B8=89=E7=9A=84 13:28 +0900=EF=BC=8CEric Kjeldergaar= d=E5=86=99=E9=81=93=EF=BC=9A > 2005/5/23, Xin LI : > > Hi, Jeremie, > >=20 > > =1B$B:_=1B(B 2005-05-23=1B$B0lE*=1B(B 02:38 +0200=1B$B!$=1B(BJeremie Le= Hen=1B$B > [snip] > > > One question however : is it supposed to consume more CPU than classi= cal > > > non-VESA text mode ? > >=20 > > I think so, it should consume more CPU than classical text mode console > > since it draws characters, rather than giving the responsibility to the > > video card. A possible optimization would be to map the video card > > memory into the space. >=20 > Tested on my Thinkpad R40 : Radeon 7500. Is it supposed to consume a > LOT of cpu? Perhaps there's something funny with -O2 or similar > because some things are VERY slow. I have not, however, noticed any > major bugs, but screen redraws will take ~1 second if the screen is > not cleared and thus causes powerd to kick my processor up to full > speed often. Also, the screensaver (logo_saver) seems to take a while > to display. The screen goes black for 10 - 15 seconds before the > screen saver displays. Through all this, though, it's still so worth > it. Yes, it requires more CPU cycles if you use raster mode. Does it also slow down your console if you are running under text mode? I hope not :-) Cheers, --=20 Xin LI http://www.delphij.net/ --=-VjWMJfzYjdDfrTH76MYS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBClA7P/cVsHxFZiIoRAjGPAJ9FJInxDSUkLwRpNkAWjAPyg/0R1ACcDCJn TvVy50CtqQhUKO8Ti2zCKjo= =bRzw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-VjWMJfzYjdDfrTH76MYS--