On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:11:38PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:47:29PM EST, Stephen Powell wrote: >
[snip] > I don't know if my video card takes care of that, but I find that moving > the cursor, scrolling, etc. is noticeably faster on a framebuffer > console than on the vga console. Mind you, since the vesa driver does > not support my display's native 1400x1050, I use the atyfb driver. So > I'm not sure how it would handle if I used the vga=xxx modes. do you know if there is still a limitation of using the nvidia framebuffer and the nvidia binary driver ? > > [..] > > > All it does is consume resources and slow things down. > > Everything has a price, keeping in mind that it might use fewer CPU cycles > if the video card is put to good use. > > Thank you for your comments, > > CJ > > -- You will be the victim of a bizarre joke.
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