Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 10:35:17 -0700 From: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> To: David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> Cc: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com>, FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns Message-ID: <CAOtMX2hkdN=8fGctfyn_ebMDfnE8K=4O1Ldqko=R9E2Ms9tceg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46CE81D4-FB40-4E41-99CF-A105D9E62369@FreeBSD.org> References: <CAOtMX2hg%2B-7F10Dx01_0_EzH_Q_eE2J%2B1wWjAiEO7f56ofCLgQ@mail.gmail.com> <58782699.2050504@gmail.com> <46CE81D4-FB40-4E41-99CF-A105D9E62369@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 4:43 AM, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 13 Jan 2017, at 01:00, Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> VT should have had better testing before becoming the default in 11.0. > > The choice was VT or no acceleration in X11, because all of the new DRI drivers depend on KMS, which requires VT. We only got VT in a useable state (and therefore useable accelerated X11 for most of the 10.x series) because the Foundation funded the work. More contributions to VT are always welcome, but the choice was not between VT or something better tested, it was between VT and black screens. > > David I should add, BTW, that on my Haswell desktop, the only place where I care about graphics, vt(4) works great. It works better than Linux did on the same hardware. It also uses a DVI monitor, so there are no issues with the borders. -Alanhelp
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