On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:46:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 02:52:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I switched from VESA console to VGA console mode at kernel compile > > time for a combination of the following reasons: > > - I can't *STAND* a blinking block cursor... I couldn't figure out > > how to slow the blink rate *or* change to a line cursor. > > - VESA mode is *dog* slow. > > For a long time I had been recompiling the stock debian install kernels > to do a number of things: > - get rid of the VGA VESA frame buffer mode that is enabled in that kernel. > - the stock kernels don't enabled DMA mode by default on many systems. > > This weekend I discovered that you can turn off the vesa frame buffer > with a boot time command line option: > === > video=vga16:off > ===
Yup, it's documented in Debian's lilo.conf along with: #vga=ask Which gives you some other modes to choose from. The mode that I happen to prefer is not in the list: vga=0x305 A moot point if you're in X all night... > Also one can enable dma mode with another boottime option: > === > ide0=dma ide1=dma > === Didn't know about that one... There's also the 'hdparm' command: hdparm -d 1 -m16 /dev/hda -d 1 == turn on DMA -m16 == turn on multi-sector IO These two options vastly improve performance on modern IDE drives. hdparm -i /dev/<device> will give you some hints about what your drive(s) may handle. Also, the hdparm man page is well-written and concise. Thanks for the tips. -troy _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
