Dreadfull flash fullscreen performance when using GRUB_TERMINAL=gfxterm

Kamil Paral kparal at redhat.com
Tue Jul 31 08:36:18 UTC 2012


> Hi,
> 
> I have noticed that when using GRUB_TERMINAL=gfxterm (that is, the
> default option, which I think is gfxterm), full-screen flash
> performance
> is bad (on a 1440x900 screen it is barely ok, on a 1920x1200 screen
> it's
> terrible).
> But if I put GRUB_TERMINAL=console, the performance drammatically
> improves. I am seeing this on rawhide with a intel 4500MHD IGP (i915
> driver).
> 
> I am unsure which is the best package to file the bug for: grub2 or
> xorg-x11-drv-intel?

Confirmed with Thinkpad T500 and Intel 4500MHD, Fedora 17. If I hadn't seen this with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed this can be related. The bugzilla is here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838723


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