Re: 10.0_RC1 on NVIDIA T400

Robert Swindells <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:44:07 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.x11
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 06:02:40PM +0000, Robert Swindells wrote:
> 
>> You may be running software rendering, just on a fast CPU.
>> 
>> Try running 'glxinfo -B' to see how it is configured.
>> 
>> I think that either modular Xorg if you want to run NetBSD 10, or
>> building MesaLib instead of the default MesaLib.old in -current will
>> give you a version of mesa with better support for that GPU.
>
> With modurar xorg it's not better.
> I get the same glxgear performances and mplayer is as slow.
> glxinfo -B gives:
>
>    Device: llvmpipe (LLVM 13.0.1, 256 bits) (0xffffffff)

This line tells you that everything is being done in software on
the CPU, the GPU is just being used as a framebuffer.

Somebody would need to trace through what is going on in the GL
initialization code to see why it isn't using the GPU.

What do you see in Xorg.0.log?