From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 25 12:00:45 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 4444A16A42A; Wed, 25 May 2005 12:00:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB75943D54; Wed, 25 May 2005 12:00:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4PC0FeM064074; Wed, 25 May 2005 07:00:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <429468C3.5040207@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 07:00:03 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050504 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Kjeldergaard References: <20050522112612.GA37841@frontfree.net> <20050523003843.GO850@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <1116815005.838.3.camel@spirit> <1116999375.731.7.camel@spirit> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/893/Tue May 24 01:27:20 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: delphij@freebsd.org, Jeremie Le Hen , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Xin LI 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 12:00:45 -0000 Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > 2005/5/25, Xin LI : >=20 >>Hi, Eric, >> >>=E5=9C=A8 2005-05-25=E4=B8=89=E7=9A=84 13:28 +0900=EF=BC=8CEric Kjelder= gaard=E5=86=99=E9=81=93=EF=BC=9A >> >>>2005/5/23, Xin LI : >>> >>>>Hi, Jeremie, >>>> >>>>=E5=9C=A8 2005-05-23=E4=B8=80=E7=9A=84 02:38 +0200=EF=BC=8CJeremie Le= Hen=E5=86=99=E9=81=93=EF=BC=9A >>>>[snip] >>>> >>>>>One question however : is it supposed to consume more CPU than class= ical >>>>>non-VESA text mode ? >>>> >>>>I think so, it should consume more CPU than classical text mode conso= le >>>>since it draws characters, rather than giving the responsibility to t= he >>>>video card. A possible optimization would be to map the video card >>>>memory into the space. >>> >>>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 :-) >> >=20 >=20 > If I'm in text mode it's fine, but of course low-res. When I'm in > raster mode I think it's maybe slower than it needs to be? (Slower > than similar situations in Linux, for instance.) Also, if I have some > terminals in text and some in raster, the switch between them is long. > That's hardly a problem by itself, though, as I rarely run mixed > terminal resolutions. I noticed that changing to 16bit (instead of 32 or 24) helped a lot. Eric --=20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------