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I fall in love with fbterm,but i don't know how to enable "fast scrolling" in my video card
laptop:ThinkPad x200
video card:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
OS:Archlinux
#fbterm -v
[screen] driver:inteldrmfb,mode:1280x800--32bpp,scrolling:redraw
[font].................
[term].............
so anyone can help me ?
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I don't know what you mean by fast scrolling... can you explain a bit more what it is you are trying to achieve? Also what other information have you already found relating to this issue?
Oh and a bit OT, but what is it you like so much about fbterm? It makes the text super small and funky on my machine.
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#man fbterm
PERFORMANCE
According test result, FbTerm spends more than 95% time on painting
screen. Speedup painting will significantly increase performance. Here
are some suggestions for frame buffer device:
* Enable fast scrolling on frame buffer device. The visible screen
will be just a window of the video memory, when scrolling, FbTerm only
change the start of window, no need to repaint the whole screen.
* On Intel P6 family processors the Memory Type Range Registers
(MTRRs) may be used to control processor access to memory ranges. If
you have video card on a PCI or AGP bus, enabling write-combining
allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer before
bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance of
FbTerm's paint operations.
Maybe you need to enable them manually for your video card. For exam‐
ple, by default fast scrolling and write-combining are all disabled on
general VESA frame buffer device, GRUB/LILO configure file should be
modified to enable them. A GRUB example is showed below:
title Ubuntu
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro root=LABEL=UBUNTU splash vga=0x317
video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr:3
initrd /boot/initrd.img
You may check fast scrolling status with "fbterm -v", a message with
"scrolling: redraw" means fast scrolling is disabled, otherwise
enabled.
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He means the scrolling:redraw thing. With (u)vesafb, redrawing mode is slow as molasses, so you activate ywrap for faster scrolling. I wasn't aware KMS drivers have this stuff too. Though it's possible they actually don't, and fbterm is giving bogus data. I'm going to bed now (it's 5am in the morning here!), but tomorrow I'll check KMS documentation.
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I think that this does not apply to you because you are using KMS (or should be at least). You are using a kind of framebuffer device, but it is not vesa.
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