On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 05:10:29 -0500, Steve wrote in message <20201130051029.510f1...@mydesk.domain.cxm>:
> On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 19:48:34 +0100 > Riccardo Mottola via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Steve Litt wrote: > > > Has anyone successfully worked with an Nvidia GeForce gt 710 with > > > Devuan? As a bonus, has anyone gotten it to work without > > > Pulseaudio? > > > > did you try nouveau? It is your only long-term hope, the short term > > being using binary drivers. > > Yes. Works fairly well, but intermittently X just terminates. ..doing what, like X freezing and hangs the whole machine? No response to keyboard input, while the mouse can still move, but no button click response? Try a RT kernel, and use it to enforce response deadlines. I also found these RT kernels helps stop youtube video stuttering. > Of > course, this could be a hardware problem, or a problem with who knows > what, but it's a problem I need to fix before appointing this machine > my new Daily Driver Desktop (DDD). Also, when I scroll, distortion > occurs on the screen, ..tearing pictures triangularly across half the screen that you can "fix" by selecting the area around said picture? ..looks like over-committed texture memory to me, I first saw that kinda tearing in FlightGear a decade back when messing around to try hike my framerate. > so I can't read while mousewheel scrolling. I > didn't even know I did this until it the ability was taken away from > me. > > > > > I have a 7300 series card (so still 7 family, but older than yours) > > and no way I can get it to work, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD all refuse > > to show something. > > Remind me not to get one of them. > > Just in case, 24 hours ago I ordered a Radeon 5450 with 2GB RAM from > Dell. If you guys haven't shopped at Dell, try it. They have *very* > helpful chat people all hours of the day. I got my help at about 4am. > My chat guy made sure I got what I wanted, when I wanted. Don't try > that at Egghead, Walmart, Amazon, BH Photos and the like. Dell's price > was on par with many, and lower than some. > > Thanks! > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times > http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
