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    SubjectRe: broadsheetfb and fbcon
    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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