On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 06:52:29PM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Jan Stary [h...@stare.cz] wrote: > > > > On Sep 23 14:50:44, ch...@nmedia.net wrote: > > > Without a dmesg, Xorg.log, and those sort of things, > > > how can anyone possibly give you a clue? > > > > > > With KMS and such, there are major changes > > > which may impact some hardware more than others. > > > > This particular machine is a Thinkpad R61 > > with an NVIDIA vga (yeah, I know). > > > > The good news is, KMS isn't the main source of your problem. > OpenBSD has no KMS support for Nvidia (although now that > TTM - the hard work - is ported over to support the Radeon KMS > it's easy for someone to port over the Nouveau code and have > modern accelerated Nvidia support) > > The bad news is, you're using the VESA driver. None of this > should affect your performance outside of X (such as in the > VT text console). But within X, the VESA driver is the > worst choice, if you can force X to use the nv driver, > you'll probably be better off for now, although it still > sucks. >
Soory, this is probably false. Did you run any timnig test to backup this sentence ? With X server 1.14, XAA acceleration is gone, so the nv driver is running un-accelerated. Moreover there's a bug in the shadowfb code in it, so it can't even use shadowfb. But yes, text scrolling has become slower in X on nvidia cards. I don't know how to explain text mode issues, especially if they are new though.
