Switching between ttys takes 5 seconds with radeon hd 5670

David Demelier demelier.david at gmail.com
Sun Mar 6 08:16:40 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?
>

No no, I don't have X installed right now, it's only switching between 
differents terminal ttyv0 -> ttyv1 ; ttyv2 -> ttyv0 ; etc.

> 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.


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David Demelier


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