ATI Radeon 4330: success

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 22 May 2014, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:

> On 08.05.2014 09:43, David Demelier wrote:
>> The vt driver and Radeon KMS works :-). The tty switch seems quick and
>> working. However I fall into the known issues of vt which is that
>> scrolling is terribly slow. I need to disable the kernel boot message or
>> I increase by 3 times the boot time vs syscons.
>
> Aleksandr is working on improving the speed of vt(4). Watch
> freebsd-x11@, in case he posts patches to test :)

There is a workaround: set hw.vga.textmode=1 in /boot/loader.conf.  The 
kernel will boot in text mode for fast scrolling and vt(4) will only 
switch to graphics mode if X is started.

>> I also have a second bug with vt(9) which is that switching from tty to
>> X will keep the display of the tty until I move the mouse (like a
>> refresh problem).
>
> I think I have the same problem (I don't vt-switch that often). I must
> look into this.

Have not seen that here with either Intel or Radeon.