On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:47:29PM EST, Stephen Powell wrote: > I prefer a hardware text mode virtual console for a number of > reasons, but one of them is that it performs better, particularly > on the ancient under-powered hardware that I tend to use!
PIII 650MHz - 386M of RAM - ATI Rage Mobility (Mach64). > For example, screen scrolling is quite snappy on a text mode virtual > console, but on a framebuffer virtual console it can be sluggish, > depending on processor speed. 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. [..] > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
