Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jun 2010 12:28:17 -0400 | From | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <> | Subject | Re: broadsheetfb and fbcon |
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On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:21:08PM -0700, Robert Emanuele wrote: > Greetings lkml and Jaya, > > I've been using the broadsheetfb graphics driver for a while now. > I've been trying to get it working with the fbcon console driver. Has > anyone had any success with that? > > While it "works", its performance is unusable as a console. It > redraws the whole screen every new line, which may be acceptable. A > real issue is when it tries to scroll the screen, it redraws each line > partially and then does a full screen update with each partial line. > It seems the driver is capable from Jaya's video at > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bny6qyRDWw > > Are those kind of updates a limit of the broadsheet driver or fbcon?
I thought there was an update value on how often it should redraw. Did you do a modinfo on the driver? > Or more hopefully, is there a configuration change to improve this?
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