From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:42:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:41:54 -0400 Received: from cisco7500-mainGW.gts.cz ([194.213.32.131]:9988 "EHLO bug.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:41:45 -0400 Message-ID: <20010911005848.A1005@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 00:58:48 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Jamie Lokier , Simon Hay Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Multiple monitors In-Reply-To: <20010903214829.B17488@unthought.net> <20010907015556.A7329@kushida.degree2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <20010907015556.A7329@kushida.degree2.com>; from Jamie Lokier on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:55:56AM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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