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> wrot= e: > 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 d= rivers 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) becaus= e the Foundation funded the work. More contributions to VT are always welc= ome, but the choice was not between VT or something better tested, it was b= etween 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. -Alan
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