Display performance doesn't seem to be an issue. Memory is ok, there are 2.7GB free out of 4GB. Disk is a 500GB M.2 SSD.The limiting factor seems to be the CPU, applications start and react to user actions slowly. All the applications I tested work except Kicad, which is unusable (the "Could not use OpenGL" error pops up all the time). I've watched a music clip on YouTube, the sound was impeccable and the video was missing frames, but still acceptable.
Conclusions:- Display performance without i915drmkms is quite acceptable for most applications, as you said
- A 4-core, 1.1GHz Pentium is not enough to run a NetBSD desktop On 30/06/2025 00:26, Greg Troxel wrote:
Vincent DEFERT <vincent.defert%posteo.net@localhost> writes:I saw the "boot -c" command in INSTALL.html and tried it. By disabling the i915drmkms driver, I could successfully install NetBSD, and WiFi even works! However, I have to use boot -c every time I boot the machine, and this is not viable. Hence 2 questions: 2. Does this mean I will not be able to use X with decent performance?If you want to run xterm and emacs mostly, it should be fine. If you are trying to play video, maybe not. But try it and see; there's no benefit to assuming instead.