Date: 17 Sep 1998 14:11:30 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki), dfr@nlsystems.com, dfr@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/isa scvidctl.c videoio.c videoio.h syscons.c syscons.h src/sys/alpha/conf files.alpha src/sys/al Message-ID: <xzplnnjhrbh.fsf@hrungnir.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Thu, 17 Sep 1998 05:02:02 -0700" References: <27494.906033722@time.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes: > > Another problem; You have removed SC_BAD_FLICKER. The screen on my laptop > > (Libretto) now flickers something horrible when I use the mouse. > Ah, that's how to turn that off! :-) Mine does it too. We should > probably revert whatever change caused this to happen by default since > it's very evil and it didn't use to happen. Telling people to rebuild > kernels with "PLEASE_DONT_FLICKER_AND_DRIVE_ME_CRAZY" is not much of > an option since most folks don't RTFM anyway and they'll just conclude > (rightly) that our console driver is broken. I agree that "flicker countermeasures" should be the default, but please leave in a knob for turning them off when they're not needed. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no
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