Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:08:56 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Bevan Coleman <bevan.coleman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow FreeBSD 5.3 console on Sparc Blade 100 Message-ID: <20050320230852.GA16909@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <ee95a99805030219586883d91b@mail.gmail.com> References: <ee95a99805030219586883d91b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 02:28:10PM +1030, Bevan Coleman wrote: > I've just installed FreeBSD 5.3 onto a Sun Spac Blade 100 desktop > machine and have found that the console is slow behond useability > press key... wait 3 seconds...press next key....). > > OpenSSL and serial consoles are all fine with good performance, but I > was hoping to be able to use X on this machine. > > Is this a know issue? or have I just not loaded the correct driver / > used the correct kernel switch...? You're using the openfirmware console, which is indeed extremely slow. If you want to try syscons, see the freebsd-sparc64 mailing list archives for extensive discussion. Kris
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