On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 10:11:24AM -0400, Todd Gruhn wrote: > The system I am using was assembled and purchase back in Aug 2019. > > Some things I noticed: > 1) The graphics card (nVidia GEFORCE GTX 1660) needs to be booted using > boot -c ; disable nouveau; quit > 2) When I compile a package -- and X Windows is NOT RUNNING -- this thing > flies > 3) When I start X (using MWM) -- builds are extremely slow; > When I do "su root" checking the root passwd takes about 3 minutes > > Is there a connection between X, my graphics card, and system slowness? > Is there a way to fix this; or is it a matter of having support for my > chip-set? > > I find this interesting to know.
I had the same issue before getting nouveau to work. Had a theory I never tested that it might be the xf86-video-nv driver causing these issues. I imagine the best experience you could have is by forcing genfb somehow and using the x wsfb driver. one way to do it is by selecting one of the vesa modes in the bootloader, another (I think) is the uefi bootloader.