(In reply to Edward Van Every from comment #80) > "Screen Change": when a major portion of the screen needs to be repainted > or refreshed. Generally under X11. As specifically identified, easily seen > when the initial login screen is "painted". That one I can't see, not even with the Leap 15.0 kernel. May be specific to the AST2500 chipset, or depend on the Leap 15.0 user-space. > Also saw really slow text mode screen updates (as when listing a long file) > outside of X11 (runlevel 3), but that is not what I've been using as my > "benchmark". That's the one I see. For completeness, could you please boot Takashi's test kernel from comment #52 and confirm that it at least solves the console (non-X11) slowness? This would confirm that we are chasing 2 different bugs.