Felix Miata wrote:
My current card is a Nvidia 690 w/3G of memory, so while it might be useful to have a desktop available on it, but then it would never be a fraction of what the 690 is, so might not be worth it....
Seems like no one knew how to keep systemd from switching mods into frame buffer it it could (the driver for this card just got some limited support for frame buffer stuff in 3.7, but it's pretty low level...
Most console text users have no complaints about console framebuffer text speed. The only time framebuffer text hasn't been faster than my eyes can follow has been while the CPU is running above 99% for reasons other than what I'm doing on a vtty.
The main complaint was there was no way to shut off it's flipping into frame buffer mode. By doing so, it flipped into a mode that the card could only support a 1/3 height set of ~25 lines at the top of the screen. Nothing I did would cause it to go back. At this point I'd really like to know how to turn off the flip into FB mode, vs. disabling support for my chipset in a special kernel build. The speed is the least of the worries. Most users wouldn't know the difference between hw-assisted scrolling and framebuffer text that is done with memmove's -- a bit at a time to make it scroll smoothly -- but is harder to read on an LCD -- maybe the persistence effect. I can see the text and make out words as they zip by on a text boot but not on a framebuffer boot. Also there is no loss of screen picture as it flips from one mode to the other in the middle of the boot when it stays in text mode (in the few times it came up in 1/3rd tall framebuff mode). So can systemd be controlled? So far, everything along the way has been people telling me why Ishould be happy with new, broken functionality that I've been encountering since last summer when I first touch 12.2. I barely manage to fix one thing or my old process around it and some knew incompatibility crops up. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org