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Subject: Re: Console driver (was: Problems with irq 9(2)?)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980702101745.16968A-100000@elect8> from Nick Hibma at "Jul 2, 98 10:23:22 am"
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In reply to Nick Hibma who wrote:
>     > > Start a utility like top and move the mouse. Wildly. You'll see that the
>     > > CPU usage goes up to 20 percent on an AMD K6-166. A bit much for a
>     > > mouse, isn't it, even if the mouse is made by Microsoft. :-) 
>     > 
>     > Hmm, I can raise my CPU usage about 2% on my 133P5, you must be
>     > doing something strange ????
> Woopsa, you are using the moused as well, I presume, and 'vidcontrol -m
> on' and you are looking at one of the text consoles? 

Yup, here on my dual PPro I cannot even telle the difference, I can see
the interupts that the psm device makes though :)

>     > doesn't work on alot of cards. But on most modern cards you dont even
>     > need this wait, they will work fine without.
> Not on mine. S3, bought 4 month ago. New.

Right, my S3 doesn't either, but my old Diamond Viper Pro (P9100 based=
works just fine without it...

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Soren Schmidt             (sos@FreeBSD.org)             FreeBSD Core Team
               So much code to hack -- so little time.

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