NVIDIA graphics / Nouveau drivers on NetBSD

pfr

Hi gang, I've been lucky enough to score myself a desktop PC that comes with an Intel i5-9400f cpu, ASRock Intel B365M-HDV MoBo and an MSI GT-710 Graphics Card.

I plan on booting NetBSD (Naturally) but I wondered about the graphics card and whether or not it'll be worth using it or not. I could be entirely missinformed but I heard that the Nouveau drivers only allow NVIDIA cards to run at their base clock speed which in many cases isn't very high. Some say that is is often better to use the MoBo's inbuild graphics instead.

I don't plan to do any graphics intensive stuff like gaming or video editing, however I do plan to buy myself a decent 1440p monitor at some stage and would like to have smooth playback of video streams etc. so I'm just seeing any advise from people who run NetBSD on a desktop system with NVIDIA cards.

Cheers

pfr Ask on the mailing lists, there are a few people that have nvidia cards. Don't know the model, though.

pfr

pin Which mailing list in particular do you tink this might be best addressed on?
netbsd-users ?

pfr No clue, it just needs to catch the attention of someone with a nvidia card.

mountfsck

probably too late and you've already received some kind of answer but i've had nothing but trouble with nouveau on NetBSD w/ gtx 980. sometimes the driver wont load during boot, prompting me to turn the computer off, other times it loads and works fine until my monitor goes to sleep, after which my monitor only displays a black screen until powering off again. the same thing happens when i try to set the display output with xrandr. i decided to use the integrated intel graphics with NetBSD and haven't had any issues since.