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Author: Arnt Karlsen
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Anybody successfully worked with an Nvidia GeForce gt 710 with Devuan?
On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 02:54:44 -0500, Steve wrote in message
<20201203025444.38d57215@???>:

> On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:43:23 -0500
> Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
>
> > From: Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???>
> > To: dng@???
> > Subject: Re: [DNG] Anybody successfully worked with an Nvidia
> > GeForce gt 710 with Devuan? Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:43:23 -0500
> > Sender: "Dng" <dng-bounces@???>
> > User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)
> >
> > 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.
>
> This computer has 64GB of ram tested through a whole 4 hour pass of
> memtest86, and htop shows it using next to none of that RAM.
>
> I'll tell you what: If it weren't for the video, this would be a
> really kick ass machine. Its six cores map to 12 in htop and gkrellm.
> Running Chromium with several youtube movies playing uses up maybe
> 5%. On my current Daily Driver Desktop (DDD) such activities take
> about 70% of the CPU.


..right, that means you can afford running a debug kernel as your
dayly driver kernel on those 6 cores and find out WTF is going on.

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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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