> you're *really* going to be much better off if you run X11 on the
> sparc console, even if you simply open a single large xterm and run
> screen inside that.  the issue is that updating the text console
> requires serious CPU, and is as i'm sure you've noticed, quite
> slow...  this is basically cuz it's a completely rendered text
> console.  X is *much* faster.

I don't see how the X server rendering text into the framebuffer is
inherently any faster than the kernel rendering text into the
framebuffer.

Or are you comparing versus a non-RASTERCONSOLE kernel?  The problem
then is bouncing all the rendering off the PROM routines, which *are*
inefficient (at least in many cases, though there are ROM rev and
framebuffer combinations that do text snappily).

If X *is* significantly faster than the kernel RASTERCONSOLE code, that
indicates not that you should use X (except in the immediate term) but
rather that the kernel code needs work!

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