Re: NetBSD-10.0RC

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

Is it possible to make root to small?  Will it affect my graphics?

My current  computer is 64b and 5-cores (same as 5 chips?) .
What size should a root be on these system?
What problem  can a small root  create  for NetBSD, and a graphics card?

Just wondering...

On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 4:30 AM Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 11:03:55PM -0500, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> > Got a result:
> >
> > cd /dev/dri
> > chmod 640 card? # all 4 card devices
> >
> >
> > I need to change all 4 cards in my system.
> > I tried this on renderD1???  ; dont do anything good for render devices.
> >
> > in .xinitrc: xrandr -s 1280x1024.
> > This gets me the window-size  I want; but  games freeze.
> > How do I fix this?
> >
> > Errors in /var/messages went away -- put some of these errors
> > popup when I shutdown the system...
>
> If you make the card devices mode 640 it means that Mesa can't use
> the GPU any more and will switch to software rendering.
> It may make the driver less verbose but some software may refuse to
> work without hardware rendering
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
>      NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> --