Re: nVidia woes

2021-04-28 Thread Rhialto
On Sun 25 Apr 2021 at 21:52:54 +0200, Tobias Nygren wrote: > On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 20:50:47 +0200 > Rhialto wrote: > > > My solution is probably going to be: get a Radeon HD-5450 card. You can > > still get them, amazingly enough, although they seem to cost twice what > > I paid in 2013. > > If yo

Re: nVidia woes

2021-04-25 Thread Tobias Nygren
On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 20:50:47 +0200 Rhialto wrote: > My solution is probably going to be: get a Radeon HD-5450 card. You can > still get them, amazingly enough, although they seem to cost twice what > I paid in 2013. If you want a slightly newer GPU core than "Cedar", "Bonaire" works too. Most of

Re: nVidia woes

2021-04-25 Thread Rhialto
On Sun 25 Apr 2021 at 18:18:36 +0200, Rhialto wrote: > X recognizes the card and also mostly works. At least, until it doesn't. > After a while the graphics just freeze. You can still move the mouse > (that's probably a sprite) and login via the network. Note this error during autoconfiguration:

Re: nVidia woes

2021-04-25 Thread Rhialto
Here are the dmesg and the Xorg log file. [ 1.00] Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, [ 1.00] 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, [ 1.00] 2018, 2019, 2020 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All ri

nVidia woes

2021-04-25 Thread Rhialto
I recently got a new computer, and because the shop where I was putting it together didn't have a Radeon HD-5450 (which I know that works), instead I chose a "ASUS GeForce GT 710 Silent, 1024 MB GDDR5". This is apparently of the Kepler chipset generation, which we're supposedly supporting in the no