Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 11 Sep 2001 00:58:48 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Multiple monitors |
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Hi!
> > Also, though, on dedicated servers etc. I'd rather not be running X if > > I didn't have to. > > You may find that a full screen xterm, with no window manager, actually > runs much faster than the console and looks identical. It is certainly > the case on several of my machines. > > This is most pronounced if X can do hardware acceleration on your video > card, although it is true even without acceleration because of xterm's > nice jump scroll capability. (Btw, I prefer gnome-terminal because of > the Linux-console colour emulation :-). > > On one 686 class machine, I saw text mode take nearly two seconds to > scroll the screen, when all but one line of the screen was being > scrolled (so it had to copy everything). This was in pure text mode, > not even a framebuffer! In X it was invisibly fast.
2 seconds on vga console is way too much. It could happen with framebuffer + usb hogging PCI... Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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