On 2021-01-28 19:48, Gary Mills wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 05:35:38PM -0800, Chris wrote:
I'm trying to find some combination of hardware that will
produce reasonable performance at the console.
By console, do you mean the raw console without a window manager? If
that's the case, it's no wonder that you are finding it slow. Most
people never see this, except during boot. The raw console is known
to be quite slow. It's never been a problem because the terminal
windows you get with a window manager are quite fast. I have five
low-end systems with a variety of video cards all running OI here.
All I ever did was to do the initial install from the live USB image,
and do updates afterwards with the pkg command.
Well *that's* depressing. Hmm. I guess my first task is going to be
*fixing* that. Frustrating; as I do a great deal of my initial work
from the console. Maybe I'm spoiled, because the (Free)BSD console(s)
are great. I can CTRL+ALT+F(1-12) for a new session, and attack
several different tasks simultaneously.
Guess I'm going to have to build all that into OI. Looks like OI uses
wcons. I'll see if I can coerce syscons(4) to replace it. Unless
someone else has a better idea/option. :-)
Thanks for taking the time to reply, Gary. Greatly appreciated!
--Chris
--
~10yrs a FreeBSD maintainer of ~160 ports
~40yrs of UNIX
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