Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow

2014-02-08 Thread Robert Millan
Package: kfreebsd-image-11.0-0-amd64 Version: 11.0~svn260666-1 Severity: important With Newcons it becomes practically impossible to use the console. When using the default VESA driver, both VT switching and text scrolling become terribly slow. Either of these operations takes almost 1 s! Newcons

Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow

2014-02-09 Thread Markus Koschany
On Sat, 08. Feb 13:49 Robert Millan wrote: [...] > Has anyone else tried Newcons? It is currently the default in kfreebsd-11 > packages. Do you also experience this problem? I tried it with kfreebsd-11 on my lenovo X200 laptop with Intel GM45 integrated graphic chipset. Switching between virtual

Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow

2014-02-09 Thread Ed Maste
On 8 February 2014 08:49, Robert Millan wrote: > Package: kfreebsd-image-11.0-0-amd64 > Version: 11.0~svn260666-1 > Severity: important > > With Newcons it becomes practically impossible to use the console. When > using the default VESA driver, both VT switching and text scrolling > become terribl

Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow

2014-02-12 Thread Robert Millan
On 09/02/2014 12:56, Markus Koschany wrote: > Switching between virtual terminals and X works flawlessly after I > loaded the intel drivers manually. What about switching from one VT to another? (no X involved) -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian

Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow

2014-02-12 Thread Robert Millan
Control: retitle -1 VGA Newcons is awfully slow Hi Ed, On 09/02/2014 19:47, Ed Maste wrote: > On what hardware (or VM) do you experience this? On my Thinkpad X220 > the console is acceptably performant in both VGA-mode (at boot) and > i915 (after starting X), with a FreeBSD-CURRENT kernel from t

Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow

2014-02-12 Thread Ed Maste
On 12 February 2014 09:05, Robert Millan wrote: > There's a small glitch during VT switch: immediately after pressing the > keys, screen is redrawn, but where you'd normally see the login prompt, > blurry characers are drawn. After a fraction of a second, these are replaced > with proper glyphs. S

Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow

2014-02-13 Thread Markus Koschany
On 12.02.2014 14:59, Robert Millan wrote: > On 09/02/2014 12:56, Markus Koschany wrote: >> Switching between virtual terminals and X works flawlessly after I >> loaded the intel drivers manually. > > What about switching from one VT to another? (no X involved) Works perfectly. signature.asc D

Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow

2014-02-13 Thread Robert Millan
On 12/02/2014 18:36, Ed Maste wrote: > On 12 February 2014 09:05, Robert Millan wrote: >> There's a small glitch during VT switch: immediately after pressing the >> keys, screen is redrawn, but where you'd normally see the login prompt, >> blurry characers are drawn. After a fraction of a second,

Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow

2014-02-14 Thread Aleksandr Rybalko
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 00:01:56 + Robert Millan wrote: > On 12/02/2014 18:36, Ed Maste wrote: > > On 12 February 2014 09:05, Robert Millan wrote: > >> There's a small glitch during VT switch: immediately after pressing the > >> keys, screen is redrawn, but where you'd normally see the login pro

Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow

2014-02-14 Thread Robert Millan
On 14/02/2014 11:00, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote: >> > Strange. What I get now is black screen during 3 seconds every time I >> > switch VT. > 3 seconds is for VirtualBox, right? No, real hardware (Radeon HD 2400 PRO). This black screen is not just black pixels, it looks a lot like the usual "mode

Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow

2014-02-14 Thread Aleksandr Rybalko
On 14 лютого 2014 р. 14:31:45 GMT+02:00, Robert Millan wrote: >On 14/02/2014 11:00, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote: >>> > Strange. What I get now is black screen during 3 seconds every >time I switch VT. >> 3 seconds is for VirtualBox, right? > >No, real hardware (Radeon HD 2400 PRO). > >This black scree

Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow

2014-02-14 Thread Robert Millan
On 14/02/2014 13:04, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote: > On 14 лютого 2014 р. 14:31:45 GMT+02:00, Robert Millan > wrote: >> On 14/02/2014 11:00, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote: > Strange. What I get now is black screen during 3 seconds every >> time I switch VT. >>> 3 seconds is for VirtualBox, right? >> >>