Getting High resolution console and Xorg to coexist

[Vladimir Grebenschikov]

В пт, 30/12/2005 в 05:56 -0800, Mervin McDougall пишет:
> 
> --- Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova at fbsd.ru> wrote:
> 
> > ÷ ÞÔ, 29/12/2005 × 15:31 -0800, Mervin McDougall
> > ÐÉÛÅÔ:
> > > Hi all
> > >   I recently installed freebsd 6.0 on my laptop, a
> > > compaq presario 2100. Thus far I am satisfied with
> > > just about everything that I have been able to
> > > accomplish on freebsd. However, I tried setting
> > the
> > > high resolution console using the raster graphics
> > on
> > > freebsd and this has had some undesirable results.
> > 
> > >   After recompiling my kernel and getting the
> > > resolution of the console to 1024x768 I tried
> > playing
> > > music on my xmms player and switching between xorg
> > and
> > > the virtual console and there would be some
> > > degradation of the sound. I am not sure whether
> > there
> > > is an increased load on the kernel whenever
> > switching
> > > between the two interfaces but I have notice some
> > > spiking on xload when switching between the two.
> > >   I took a friends advice and increased the pcm
> > > buffersize and the irqrate but this has had no
> > effect
> > > in improving the sound quality. I have noticed as
> > well
> > > that when reading long files, there is also a
> > > degradation of sound quality. For example while
> > > reading NOTES in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf the sound
> > from
> > > xmms, which was being played on xfce, would slow
> > down
> > > as I paged through the document or when scrolled
> > > through line by line using the arrowpad. 
> > >    I am not sure what is causing the problem or
> > why it
> > > is behaving in this manner but I would be more
> > than
> > > happy to provide any extra information about the
> > > problem. I had an opportunity to scan through the
> > > mailing lists for similar problems but did not
> > find
> > > one that quite fit this descritption.
> > > 
> > > Any assistance would be appreciated
> > 
> > Actually I have similar problem, on my Sony VAIO Z1,
> > I have 1400x1050
> > raster console and X.
> > 
> > I am rare switch vty from X to console and bac, but 
> > when I did it I always experience some significant
> > delay (usually 1-3
> > sec, already reported here some times ago).
> > Sometimes instead of delay I get lockup - system
> > freezes and do not
> > answer any activity.
> > 
> > Probability of frees grow with delay time (looks
> > like).
> > Delay time is grow with system load (looks like).
> > 
> > No any ideas hot to cure the problem.
> > 
> > I have fresh 7-CURRENT.
> > 
> > > Mervin McDougall
> > 
> > -- 
> > Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
> > vova at fbsd.ru
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> Vladimir
>   I think I got the solution to the problem. I spent
> some time pondering on the problem and a friend of
> mine and I thought the solution to the problem is one
> of two things. Either there was a redesign of the
> syscons driver for the high resolution console or
> perhaps the use of a different sound arhitechture. So,
> I decided to take the easy route and try out the
> 4front OSS drivers for freebsd. Since then the problem
> has been fixed. There is no longer any problem with
> switching between Xorg and high resolution console.  I
> suggest you try it. 
> 
> http://www.opensound.com/ 
> The site above is the site for 4front technologies

Actually I am expecting problems while switching between X and raster
console not depending on sound. So I do not think that this will help
me.

> Mervin McDougall
> 
> 
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-- 
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
vova at fbsd.ru