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Date:      Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:08:56 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Bevan Coleman <bevan.coleman@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Slow FreeBSD 5.3 console on Sparc Blade 100
Message-ID:  <20050320230852.GA16909@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <ee95a99805030219586883d91b@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <ee95a99805030219586883d91b@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 02:28:10PM +1030, Bevan Coleman wrote:
> I've just installed FreeBSD 5.3 onto a Sun Spac Blade 100 desktop
> machine and have found that the console is slow behond useability
> press key... wait 3 seconds...press next key....).
> 
> OpenSSL and serial consoles are all fine with good performance, but I
> was hoping to be able to use X on this machine.
> 
> Is this a know issue? or have I just not loaded the correct driver /
> used the correct kernel switch...?

You're using the openfirmware console, which is indeed extremely slow.
If you want to try syscons, see the freebsd-sparc64 mailing list
archives for extensive discussion.

Kris



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