Re: NetBSD-10.0RC

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

GTX-1660 works fine with NetBSd-10.0RC1 -- I had to re-slice HD and
re-install NetBSD.

The problem moved -- now It says /var is too small; NetBSD cannot
write dow log files.
How big should /var be on a personal computer???

On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 7:35 PM Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> I found $HOME/.cache/mesa_shader_cache ...
>
> what is is ; and do I need to clean it out once in a while?
>
> On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 10:50 AM Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> > > --