Re: [gentoo-user] Playing video and CPU usage

2019-01-11 Thread Dale
Andrew Udvare wrote: >> On 2019-01-12, at 00:00, Dale wrote: >> >> Howdy, >> >> As some know, I recently bought a video card. While not the most modern >> thing, it is a lot faster than my old one. I have a question tho. When >> I'm watching TV and playing a video with Smplayer, high

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing video and CPU usage

2019-01-11 Thread Dale
Davyd McColl wrote: > > > On January 12, 2019 7:00:19 AM Dale wrote: > What X driver are you using? Nouveau or the proprietary nvidia one? > Your glxinfo suggests neither and you should get way higher fps with > glxgears on either, but most especially with the proprietary one. > Personally, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing video and CPU usage

2019-01-11 Thread Dale
Andrew Udvare wrote: >> On 2019-01-12, at 00:00, Dale wrote: >> >> Howdy, >> >> As some know, I recently bought a video card. While not the most modern >> thing, it is a lot faster than my old one. I have a question tho. When >> I'm watching TV and playing a video with Smplayer, high

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing video and CPU usage

2019-01-11 Thread Davyd McColl
On January 12, 2019 7:00:19 AM Dale wrote: Howdy, As some know, I recently bought a video card.  While not the most modern thing, it is a lot faster than my old one.  I have a question tho.  When I'm watching TV and playing a video with Smplayer, high resolution or a medium resolution, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing video and CPU usage

2019-01-11 Thread Andrew Udvare
> On 2019-01-12, at 00:00, Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > As some know, I recently bought a video card. While not the most modern > thing, it is a lot faster than my old one. I have a question tho. When > I'm watching TV and playing a video with Smplayer, high resolution or a > medium

[gentoo-user] Playing video and CPU usage

2019-01-11 Thread Dale
Howdy, As some know, I recently bought a video card.  While not the most modern thing, it is a lot faster than my old one.  I have a question tho.  When I'm watching TV and playing a video with Smplayer, high resolution or a medium resolution, it seems to use a good bit of CPU power.  I notice in

[gentoo-user] systemd-240 doesn't load my kernel modules

2019-01-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have systemd and openrc installed on my system, but I use openrc for booting. Upto systemd-239 this works just fine. But with systemd-240 my system doesn't load necessary kernel modules like DRM AMDGPU modules. This break Xorg : (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory Has