I wrote:
> I didn't think of [trying other Nvidia boards].
Tried two even older Nvidia boards I happened to have on the shelf, but
the kernel crashed during autoconfiguration with both of them. Then I
found this cute little Radeon board, a really old one, and now I'm happy
as a clam. Never had
matthew green writes:
> can you file a PR about this?
Done. kern/56826
> i don't see the problem on 750 or 730 cards.
I didn't think of that... I do have a couple of other graphics boards
on the shelf, but as they're all Nvidia, I figured it didn't make sense
to try them. Guess I'll do
On Mon, 9 May 2022, Robert Elz wrote:
Since my dream of using just the integrated graphics as dumb
frame buffer and driving 3 monitors from it has been heartlessly
crushed, I am going to get 4 GPUs, and the use whichever one
works best
Well, you can sort-of get a dumb framebuffer-like effect
Date:Tue, 10 May 2022 03:54:29 +1000
From:matthew green
Message-ID: <27281.1652118...@splode.eterna.com.au>
| > Radeon RX 550 (HDMI, DP, and DVI with a DVI to HTML converter)
|
| FWIW, i put my RX 550 into my test box yesterday and ran my
| basic stress
> Radeon RX 550 (HDMI, DP, and DVI with a DVI to HTML converter)
FWIW, i put my RX 550 into my test box yesterday and ran my
basic stress test -- 12 glxgears tiled separately and then
playing a movie on top of it.
it failed. the GPU resets itself a few times, there's severe
display
Date:Sun, 08 May 2022 22:03:29 +0200
From:Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
Message-ID:
| Well, in my experience, nvidia is probably something you only want if
| you have lots of RAM in your workstation.
Depending upon your definition of lots, I might. But:
| In HEAD,
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo writes:
> Robert Elz writes:
>
> > Any advice?
>
> Well, in my experience, nvidia is probably something you only want if
> you have lots of RAM in your workstation. In HEAD, there's a lot of
> memory leaking going on - every change to the image on the monitor leaks
>
Robert Elz writes:
> Any advice?
Well, in my experience, nvidia is probably something you only want if
you have lots of RAM in your workstation. In HEAD, there's a lot of
memory leaking going on - every change to the image on the monitor leaks
kmem-04096 items, and on my 1920x1080 monitor,
On Sat, 7 May 2022, Robert Elz wrote:
I was kind of hoping (dreaming) that someone might say "If you
really don't care about acceleration" (I don't) "then just disable
x using userconf" (needing to build a custom kernel fine as well)
"and it should just work" (for any one of the 3 possible
Robert Elz writes:
> Date:Sat, 07 May 2022 14:28:12 +1000
> From:matthew green
> Message-ID: <16731.1651897...@splode.eterna.com.au>
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> | the GTX 16xx are both in the recent supported list for
> | new drm,
>
> Thanks, I might try one to
On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 06:02:23PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> I was kind of hoping (dreaming) that someone might say "If you
> really don't care about acceleration" (I don't) "then just disable
> x using userconf" (needing to build a custom kernel fine as well)
> "and it should just work" (for
Date:Sat, 07 May 2022 14:28:12 +1000
From:matthew green
Message-ID: <16731.1651897...@splode.eterna.com.au>
Thanks for the reply.
| the GTX 16xx are both in the recent supported list for
| new drm,
Thanks, I might try one to see. But where is that list?
I
> What I need from the new one is no different than I needed
> then, a flat frame buffer, capable of supporting 3 high res
> monitors (3840x2160, 1440x2560 (portrait mode), and 2560x1080.)
it's the 3840x2160 that makes the older cards not potential
for your requirements -- they're max at
I am in the process of acquiring a new destop (deskunder really) PC.
I am trying to discover what kind of graphics card I should get,
and cannot work out how to do that, other than by asking here.
I hunted in the sources and couldn't find anything useful.
pcidevs has lots listed, but I know being
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