slow tty

frpatte · May 6, 2020, 5:06pm

Bonjour,

My nvidia graphic card is GeForce 7800 GTX. Running 304.88 nvidia driver on debian sid (kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64).

While displaying a long text, it takes .006951163 second in an rxvt terminal and more that 12s in tty.

Is it possible to configure the tty display to increase its speed.

Thank you.

François Patte

aplattner · February 1, 2020, 3:43am

Are you talking about the VGA text console you get when X is not running? No, it’s not possible to speed that up.

birdie · February 29, 2020, 1:48am

If you’re using VesaFB, use this kernel boot parameter:

video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap

It makes Vesa blazingly fast.