On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 05:10:29 -0500, Steve wrote in message
<20201130051029.510f1fb7@???>:

> On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 19:48:34 +0100
> Riccardo Mottola via Dng <dng@???> 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
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