Re: Modern nVidia and rather basic performance.

On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 04:52:10PM -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> So... I have a goal: to be off winblows before the support for 10 times
> out.  That's a little less than a year.  I had a FreeBSD desktop up to 2005
> or so, and would like to return.  In all other spheres, I use FreeBSD.  I
> like ZFS.  Etc.
> The remaining blocking issue is X11-related.  I'm not even looking (at the
> moment) for Steam --- I have a Stemdeck.  I might boot linux for Steam.
> I'd rather not, tho.
> Here's the first meat of the issue.  I'm using the nvidia driver.  My
> display hardware is a 3080Ti.  Things seem to work fine except ... say I
> have a large window scrolling a compile.  Then when I click on the kde
> button to show my docked things --- the window pasues for seconds ... until
> the kde display pops up.
> Is this KDE's fault?  Is this FreeBSD's fault?

i think we'd need more info to help debug this.

what version of the nvidia driver do you have installed? (pkg info | grep nvidia should help)

have you verified the nvidia driver is loading successfully? (dmesg |grep nvidia should help)

is Xorg picking up the nvidia driver?  One thing you can do here is install the mesa-demos package, then run something like "glxinfo |grep NVIDIA" and ensure that Nvidia is driving GLX on your xorg session.

it's also possible that there is something else up, is DNS working etc...

-pete