Re: System-slowness and graphics cards

2020-04-09 Thread Mike Pumford
On 09/04/2020 19:59, Todd Gruhn wrote: here is a portion of me Xorg.log.0 file: Does "No monitor specified ... " have anything to do with the slow X startup? I recalled that 10yrs ago I set a MODELINE to my X config, and X came up much faster. ANY CONNECTION? Not really. Mode stuff tends

System-slowness and graphics cards

2020-04-09 Thread Todd Gruhn
here is a portion of me Xorg.log.0 file: [ 571.003] (==) --- End of built-in configuration --- [ 571.003] (==) ServerLayout "Builtin Default Layout" [ 571.003] (**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default nouveau Screen 0" (0) [ 571.003] (**) | |-->Monitor "" [ 571.003] (**) | |-->Device

Xbox 360 controller not syncing

2020-04-09 Thread nottobay
Is there anything special I need to do for an Xbox 360 controller to work on netbsd 8.1?

why the c99 mandate?

2020-04-09 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
i read somewhere that the netbsd project now mandates that all new code be c99. i believe that mandate stands true for updates to old code too. may i know the rationale for insisting of c99 when c89 was just fine for so many years? also if the change was inevitable, then why not a newer standard

Re: System slowness and graphics-card

2020-04-09 Thread Michael
Hello, On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 13:33:21 + m...@netbsd.org wrote: > 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

Re: System slowness and graphics-card

2020-04-09 Thread Mike Pumford
On 09/04/2020 14:33, m...@netbsd.org wrote: 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.

Re: System slowness and graphics-card

2020-04-09 Thread maya
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