On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 12:26:05PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> 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?

I have something like that happening when the system runs out of memory.
It becomes unresponsive to keyboard and mouse, and appears to freeze.
Eventually it revers -- this can take many minutes. Maybe longer. I
usually walk away and come back later if I don't feel like rebooting.
As far as I can tell, the OOM killer struggles to get enough resource to
decide which process to kill. Often if choses firefox-esr, which can
have a lot of processes caled Web Content.

Sometimes I can control-alt-F1 to a text console, which echoes
keystrokes very slowly, and I can killall firefox-esr.

> No response to keyboard input, while the mouse can still move,
> but no button click response?

button-click response is then also very slow, but does happen
eventually. Too slow to know what got clicked on.

-- hendrik

> 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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