Switching between ttys takes 5 seconds with radeon hd 5670

David Demelier demelier.david at gmail.com
Sun Mar 6 10:01:01 UTC 2011


On 05/03/2011 19:03, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, David Demelier wrote:
>
>> I've got a brand new radeon hd 5670, when I switch between ttys it
>> takes about 5 seconds to refresh (to show the next tty)
>
> Do you mean switching between text consoles (ttyv) or between a text
> console and X?
>
> Switching between X and a console, or particularly back from a console
> to X, is slow unless you have moused_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf.
>
>> Is this due to the lack of KMS support in FreeBSD?
>
> Probably not.

I recompiled the kernel with the VESA stuff, it's faster again now. 
Don't know if it only appears with GENERIC then.

-- 
David Demelier


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