Roger wrote:
> 
> Is there anyway to speed up the main console display?
> When I startup without X, the main console scrolls at what
> appears to be equivalent to a 2400 baud modem.
> If I startx, then everything is fine.  xterms scroll at a blinding
> rate.  But once I quit X and return to a plain screen, text
> scrolls at an excruciatingly slow rate.  What's going on?

the console driver is very slow.  it was written to work, not to be fast
:-)

i'd recommend using 'dt', which not only gives you much faster scrolling,
it also allows you to have virtual terminals, cut'n'paste with the mouse,
and inverse video.

you can find it on both ftp.macbsd.com and ftp.netbsd.org (and its
mirrors) i believe.  dig around in the mac68k area.

i hope this helps.

later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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