On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 4:43 AM, David Chisnall <thera...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 13 Jan 2017, at 01:00, Ernie Luzar <luzar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> VT should have had better testing before becoming the default in 11.0. > > The choice was VT or no acceleration in X11, because all of the new DRI > drivers depend on KMS, which requires VT. We only got VT in a useable state > (and therefore useable accelerated X11 for most of the 10.x series) because > the Foundation funded the work. More contributions to VT are always welcome, > but the choice was not between VT or something better tested, it was between > VT and black screens. > > David
I should add, BTW, that on my Haswell desktop, the only place where I care about graphics, vt(4) works great. It works better than Linux did on the same hardware. It also uses a DVI monitor, so there are no issues with the borders. -Alan _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
