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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Subject: Re: Switching between ttys takes 5 seconds with radeon hd 5670
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On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, David Demelier wrote:

> I've got a brand new radeon hd 5670, when I switch between ttys it takes 
> about 5 seconds to refresh (to show the next tty)

Do you mean switching between text consoles (ttyv) or between a text 
console and X?

Switching between X and a console, or particularly back from a console 
to X, is slow unless you have moused_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf.

> Is this due to the lack of KMS support in FreeBSD?

Probably not.