Subject: Re: G4 drive-sharing OF problems.
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Wolfson <mw@blobulent.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/06/2002 15:45:47
At 3:39 PM -0800 2/6/02, Bill Studenmund wrote:
:)It's not OF's fault, it's the fact we aren't using graphics acceleration.
:)Though they shouldn't be quite *that* slow.
[sigh]. Sometimes I feel no one bothers to RTFM.
From http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#scroll-speed
The text console code is not optimized in the GENERIC kernel. There is
accelerated text console code in -current, if you build a new kernel.
This fix is not in NetBSD 1.5.x.
You will need to build a new kernel. Add the following line to your
kernel configuration:
options OFB_ENABLE_CACHE
Of course, I have no idea why this isn't the default behavior because the
uncached ofb is nigh unusable.
-- MW