12.1 Milestone-2 - Post your experiences

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I did not see an openSUSE-12.1 milestone-2 thread, so I thought that I would start one.

I booted my Sandbox PC (ancient athlon-1100 with 2GB RAM and nVidia FX5200 (details below)) to the 32-bit openSUSE-12.1 KDE4 liveCD.

It came up ok to the nouveau driver at 1440x900. Same behaviour I saw under openSUSE-11.3 and 11.4. The proprietary nVidia driver typically gives 1600x1200 on this current graphic card/monitor configuration.

I noted internet worked via wired (I’m typing this now from this PC running from the liveCD and using Firefox-5).

This PC has two sound devices, and sound was strange with the start up sound coming through one sound card and Firefox playing audio through my other sound card. I expected sound to come through only one by default, but that was not the case. This PC’s sound info is here: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=6686a207bf7d2a582311e045651367b76413f60f

I note NetworkManager was running but there was no control present to activate the atheros wireless device in this PC. Maybe I need to boot without the wired cable to see it ?

PC details are here from Packman inxi (I had to custom compile it for 12.1 in the PC ram while running from the liveCD):


CPU~Single core AMD Athlon (-UP-) clocked at 1150.071 Mhz Kernel~2.6.39-2-default i686 Up~0:18 Mem~724.6/2014.0MB HDD~484.0GB(-) Procs~130 Client~Shell inxi~1.7.1                                                                      
linux@linux:~> inxi -v 4                                                                                            
System:    Host linux.site Kernel 2.6.39-2-default i686 (32 bit) 
           Desktop KDE 4.6.4 (Qt 4.7.3) Distro openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 2 (i586) VERSION = 12.1 CODENAME = Asparagus 
Machine:   Mobo MSI model MS-6380E version 1.0                                                                      
           Bios American Megatrends version 07.00T date 04/02/01                                                    
CPU:       Single core AMD Athlon (-UP-) cache 256 KB flags (sse) bmips 2300.14 clocked at 1150.071 MHz             
Graphics:  Card: nVidia NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] bus-ID: 01:00.0                                                      
           X.Org 1.9.3 drivers loaded: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,nv,vesa Resolution 1440x900@59.9hz                   
           GLX Renderer Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.10.2 Direct Rendering Yes                                 
Network:   Card-1 Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver 8139too v: 0.9.28 port e000 bus-ID: 00:08.0                  
           IF: eth0 state: unknown speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:50:fc:5f:ba:6d                              
           Card-2 Atheros Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter driver ath5k bus-ID: 00:0a.0                    
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 00:11:95:91:76:f5                                                             
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 484.0GB (-) 1: /dev/sda ST3320620A 320.1GB                                               
           2: /dev/sdb Maxtor_6Y160P0 163.9GB                                                                       
Partition: ID:/ size: 3.6G used: 2.5G (71%) fs: rootfs ID:/ size: 3.6G used: 2.5G (71%) fs: ext4                    
Info:      Processes 130 Uptime 0:18 Memory 738.0/2014.0MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.7.1

Overall performance was good. Better than what I remember in 11.3 from a liveCD, and even better than what I remember in 11.4 from a liveCD.

LiveCD tests are a bit limited, and I hope later to install 12.1 Milestone2 on this PC.

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I’ve downloaded and installed the Gnome 32-bit version of Milestone2. As with Milestone1, I had to use an actual LiveCD to do so - for some mysterious (to me) reason, a Live USB stick made in the usual manner with “dd” hung after navigating successfully through the initial boot screen.

I was a bit surprised to find that there has been no improvement to the initial user experience. Gnome Shell is still not included in the LiveCD, so the user is presented with a fallback interface, and the installer link is both somewhat hidden in the “Desktop” folder and categorised by the system as “untrusted”!

Furthermore, there has been one significant regression, in that Yast does not launch properly (owing, the error message states, to a “misconfiguration”). Fortunately, it is still possible to add/remove software and to run software updates using the separate links to the relevant packages (although, as with Yast itself, hitting the links first drops you into a terminal window). I was thus able to install Gnome-Shell and its extensions manually although, given the apparent lack of any significant attention to this general development area, I chose not to install the “xrandr” extension, which caused problems with Milestone1. Incidentally, I had no problem connecting to either of my wireless networks (I don’t have access to a hard-wired connection, since ADSL has yet to penetrate to my corner of Australia).

Once things are up and running, matters improve somewhat, and all the standard application software packages work properly. Changes to Gnome Shell seem minimal, except that it’s nice once again to have a direct link to “power off” in the top right-hand menu.

Milestone2 is (quite understandably) very much a work in progress at this stage. I’ll have a go at the KDE version later today.

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I’ve can launch the Yast2 Control Center from the terminal by using su then /sbin/yast2.

However, during the manual launch process, I consistently receive the following warnings:

error raised: [libslab_get_gconf_value: error getting /desktop/gnome/applications/main-menu/lock-down/user_modifiable_apps]

error raised [load_xbel_store: couldn’t load bookmark file [NULL]

key not found [/applications/yast-control-center/cc_actions_list]

The control center appears functional, but any attempt to run one of the components results in an “error launching file” message to the effect that the system has failed to execute the child process “gnomesu” (no such file or directory). Presumably, this is the underlying cause of the problems.

Could others confirm this behaviour? If so, I’ll raise a bug report.

4

Bingo - installing libgnomesu (and a couple of dependencies) has resolved the problems reported in my most recent post, and Yast Control Center now functions correctly.

5

Reported as Bug #701721

6

On my PC above, in post#1 to this thread, I installed the 32-bit openSUSE-12.1 Milestone2 LXDE desktop from the DVD. I don’t have much further to add (yet) beyond what I observed with the liveCD. I note during the install the default Network Mode was the traditional network setup with Net Control ifup and the network manager disabled. I may try to enable NetworkManager later.

I was comparing M1 with M2, and from a graphics perspective there are not much changes. I did not see any additional patches in the kernel-default between M1’s 2.6.39-2.2 and M2’s 2.6.39-2.3. The libdrm, xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau (and radeonhd, and intelgacy) were the same. The xorg-x11-driver-video had only some cleanups to the spec file, and cleanup of patches believed to be unused for vmware, matrox, intel, and fbdev. There was a slight change to Mesa, with various patches, including one to address a memory leak, GLX, and some minor. Reference the GLX, I noted when booting to M2 (compared to M1) for the GLX renderer rasterizer GLX version, that it changed from 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.10.2) direct rendering = NO, to 2.1 Mesa-7.10.2 Direct rendering=YES. ie they look very similar but for M1 direct rendering is NO while it is YES for M2. I don’t think that matters the way I use LXDE.

I may later play (test) with pulse audio, the wireless network on this PC, and systemd.

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Further to my above post on the same PC in post#1, with 32-bit openSUSE-12.1 from DVD install with LXDE desktop, I enabled the wireless on this desktop PC (running LXDE) without much difficulty.

I went to YaST > Network Devices > Network Settings > Gobal Options and selected “user controlled with network manager”. It cautioned me to ensure NetworkManager was installed (which it was) and then an network icon (showing a pix of 2-pcs one behind the other) appeared in the lower right corner of the LXDE desktop. I left clicked on it, saw our wireless LAN (strongest signal of about a dozen wireless signals) and selected it. I was prompted for root password (which I entered) and then prompted for our WLAN password, which I entered. The NetworkManager then connected to our home WLAN.

So wireless works. My wireless is an atheros (using ath5k driver):


00:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0013] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: D-Link System Inc AirPlus DWL-G520 Wireless PCI Adapter (rev. B) [1186:3a13]
    Kernel driver in use: ath5k
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Had same problem during installation as M1 - a kernel panic; happened
during the first reboot I assume. Pressing the restart button rebooted it
and installation finished without any more nasty surprises.

I’m using it at the moment and - so far - no problems. In fact, one
problem has been solved from 11.4. Upgrading from Firefox 4.0 to 5.0
scrambled my tabs after a restore so I went back to 4.0. In 12.1, 5.0 was
installed, my windows and tabs were restored with no difficulties. I also
switched from 64-bit to 32 but whether that’s significant I’ve no idea.

–
Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 11.4; KDE 4.6.4; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210; Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA);
Wireless: BCM4306

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I used the GNOME Live CD. Booting from the CD was fine, no problems for browsing and such. The first time I tried installing, it stopped (no error message) after the final [timestamp] <message>. After that it should have started the installation menu. Second try was OK.

I didn’t get it from the start that gnome-shell isn’t installed. In fallback mode, YaST (graphical) won’t start, it opens a small terminal window that shows a few errors (too fast to copy them, sorry) and then exists. The command line YaST works.
The nvidia video driver that I use on 11.4 kernel 2.37 + gnome 3 didn’t compile. Tried using an older version and various advice from the wiki, it worked. Installing gnome-shell, gcc, make (with zypper) and some other stuff was OK. However, when starting in Gnome Shell everything was very slow and/or the screen didn’t refresh (the logout menu for example wasn’t visible but the area was active, I could click on it). I suppose it’s from the video driver, I have an older card. In fallback mode Gnome was quite snappy, but clearly slower than in 11.4 fallback mode, both with nouveau and nvidia drivers.

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I installed using the DVD x86_64. I cannot get the latest Nvidia driver installed correctly. Although, I am experienced with the Nvidia driver installation -The Hard Way “it’s not that hard” from previous versions of openSUSE 11.2 - 11.4 Milestones.

I have not created a “xorg.conf” file. However, the new openSUSE 12.1 – 1 and 2 Milestone releases do not require it anymore.

The nvidia-xconfig creates an error most likely due to incomplete settings.

Is anyone else experiencing problems with the installation Nvidia blob?

Cheers!

Romanator

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Installed M2 today from the Live KDE burnt CD. Everything seems to to work fine so far (I use a wired connection). Latest nvidia driver installed fine. Didn’t have the yast problem referred to above. MPlayer, VLC and all multimedia (using packman factory, tumblweed & 11.4) all installed without any problems.

I am downloading the DVD version as I think I will use M2 as my main system.

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I can confirm that the Yast problem is specific to the Gnome edition of M2 and, as reported previously, is a simple packaging issue. I haven’t yet been able to check whether the same issue afflicts the 64-bit version as well as the 32-bit version. The 32-bit KDE edition installed without difficulty, and is running well on my old Compaq C700 laptop. Not sure that I’d be ready to adopt M2 for my main production machine though …

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A follow up to my original post:

The latest Nvidia driver does not install correctly nor completely on my 64-bit installation.

However, the Nvidia installation may work correctly on a 32-bit installation.

14

Did a straight update from M1 to M2 with the x64 KDE DVD. No problems whatsoever. Not yet had time to install Nvidia instead of nouveau but haven’t come across any problems with apps as yet.

15

Follow up:

I have included a link to my Xorg.0.log file: SUSE Paste

Lines 101 – 110 show the nvidia module being unloaded.

101  14.016] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
102  14.018] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
103  14.018] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
104  14.018]     compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
105  14.018]     Module class: X.Org Video Driver
106  14.692] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
107  14.692] (EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error messages.
108  14.692] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
109  14.692] (II) Unloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
110  14.692] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)

The nvidia-installer.log can be accessed here: SUSE Paste

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Hi, in 12.1 M2 KDE 64bit
Test in Mother MSI NEOv2 4GB RAM - AMD LE1640 - Nvidia 7100GS

  • propietary Nvidia driver works fine
  • Yast HTTP server conf don’t work
  • rewrite module don’t work, I already set /etc/apache2/default-server.conf with vim, run SuSeconfig and restart apache2
  • windows sometimes turns into black
  • gtk-qt not work for gedit
  • gedit open new document when open any document
  • kdesu don’t work(example kdesu dolphin)

:slight_smile:

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Update to my message in #16

yast http server conf

Uncaught exception from user code:
Can’t locate Switch.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /y2update/modules /root/.yast2/modules /usr/share/YaST2/modules /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.14.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.14.1 /usr/lib/perl5/5.14.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.14.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /usr/share/YaST2/modules/YaPI/HTTPD.pm line 299.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /usr/share/YaST2/modules/YaPI/HTTPD.pm line 299.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted.
at -e line 0
Can’t locate Switch.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /y2update/modules /root/.yast2/modules /usr/share/YaST2/modules /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.14.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.14.1 /usr/lib/perl5/5.14.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.14.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /usr/share/YaST2/modules/YaPI/HTTPD.pm line 299.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /usr/share/YaST2/modules/YaPI/HTTPD.pm line 299.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted (#1)
(F) You said to do (or require, or use) a file that couldn’t be
found. Perl looks for the file in all the locations mentioned in @INC,
unless the file name included the full path to the file. Perhaps you
need to set the PERL5LIB or PERL5OPT environment variable to say where
the extra library is, or maybe the script needs to add the library name
to @INC. Or maybe you just misspelled the name of the file. See
“require” in perlfunc and lib.

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I booted the 64-bit openSUSE-12.1 Milestone2 KDE liveCD on my Dell Studio 1537 laptop. The first boot attempt with no wired connection ‘hung’ (for a while) with the line:


iwglan 0000:04:00.0: wlan0: Features changed: 0x00004800 -> 0x00004000

After over a minute of waiting I pressed after over a minute and the boot continued. Perhaps if I had waited longer it would have timed out. After a successful boot to X window (KDE) there was no wireless functionality. I note this in the /var/log/messages file:


Jun 25 18:00:16 (none) kernel:    42.892104] iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, in-tree:d
Jun 25 18:00:16 (none) kernel:    42.892193] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2010 Intel Corporation
Jun 25 18:00:16 (none) kernel:    42.892457] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
Jun 25 18:00:16 (none) kernel:    42.892545] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
Jun 25 18:00:16 (none) kernel:    42.892582] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 AGN, REV=0x24
Jun 25 18:00:16 (none) kernel:    42.914606] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: device EEPROM VER=0x120, CALIB=0x4
Jun 25 18:00:16 (none) kernel:    42.914682] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: Device SKU: 0Xb
Jun 25 18:00:16 (none) kernel:    42.914769] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels
Jun 25 18:00:16 (none) kernel:    42.914964] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: irq 47 for MSI/MSI-X
Jun 25 18:00:16 (none) kernel:    44.725915] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode' failed.
Jun 25 18:00:16 (none) kernel:    44.730952] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-4.ucode' failed.
...
Jun 25 18:00:16 (none) kernel:    44.732711] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-3.ucode' failed.
....
Jun 25 18:00:16 (none) kernel:    45.896168] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: Firmware has old API version. Expected v5, got v2. New firmware can be obtained from http://www.intellinuxwireless.org.
Jun 25 18:00:16 (none) kernel:    45.896264] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: loaded firmware version 8.24.2.12
.....
Jun 25 18:00:16 (none) kernel:    46.850018] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: wlan0: Features changed: 0x00004800 -> 0x00004000

… hmmm if I read that correctly, not only does it say it cannot find the firmware file, but its saying either the file it has is V2 and should be V5, or its saying that I need to update the Intel wireless device firmware in my laptop from a V2 to a V5 ? Anyone have any idea which ? … more on my hardware later.

Anyway, after copying the /var/log/messages file to a USB stick, I rebooted, and this time I had a wired ethernet cable (to the Internet via our family router) plugged in. I saw the same error flash by but it did not hang there.

The PC booted to X window and wired Internet worked. I note with his PC’s AMD Radeon HD3450 that X came up to the ‘radeon’ driver at 1440x900 resolution. Note openSUSE-11.4 GM version froze on this laptop (a bug with the Radeon hardware in initrd I think (bug report was written)) so it was good to see openSUSE-12.1 M2 succeed with X window indicating the 11.4 bug was fixed.

I note sound worked as did sound with Firefox over the internet. I rebuilt the program ‘inxi’ and ran it to provide some details on the laptop hardware:


linux@linux:~> inxi -v 6
System:    Host linux.site Kernel 2.6.39-2-desktop x86_64 (64 bit gcc 4.6.0) 
           Desktop KDE 4.6.4 (Qt 4.7.3) Distro openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 2 (x86_64) VERSION = 12.1 CODENAME = Asparagus
Machine:   System Dell (portable) product Studio 1537 version A09
           Mobo Dell model 0P132H version A09 Bios Dell version A09 date 05/27/2009
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU P8400 (-MCP-) cache 3072 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx) bmips 9044.78 
           Clock Speeds: (1) 800.00 MHz (2) 2267.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series bus-ID: 01:00.0 
           X.Org 1.9.3 drivers ati,radeon,radeonhd unloaded: vesa,fbdev Resolution 1440x900@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV620 GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.10.2 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card-1 ATI RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Series] driver HDA Intel bus-ID: 01:00.1 Sound: ALSA v: 1.0.24
           Card-2 Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller driver HDA Intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Network:   Card-1 Intel Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 driver iwlagn v: in-tree:d bus-ID: 04:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 00:16:ea:ed:80:76
           Card-2 Broadcom NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver tg3 v: 3.117 bus-ID: 08:00.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:21:70:85:8d:be
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (-) 1: /dev/sda ST9250421ASG 250.1GB 
           Optical: /dev/sr0 model: TSST DVD+-RW TS-T633A rev: D300 dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw,scd0
           Features: speed: 24x multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition: ID:/ size: 4.9G used: 2.6G (53%) fs: rootfs dev: /dev/loop0 label: N/A uuid: 51dba482-46b4-40af-8bd2-68d1cd53f20e 
           ID:/ size: 4.9G used: 2.6G (53%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/loop0 label: N/A uuid: 51dba482-46b4-40af-8bd2-68d1cd53f20e 
Unmounted: ID: /dev/sda1 size: 84.28G label: N/A uuid: 2B8B4CFB6B9D2C0B 
           ID: /dev/sda5 size: 2.15G label: N/A uuid: 071cf853-950e-4dc1-84cd-9812e34b7b95 
           ID: /dev/sda6 size: 21.48G label: N/A uuid: 2551b18a-1110-4b4e-bf98-ffe664072e2c 
           ID: /dev/sda7 size: 142.14G label: N/A uuid: b5ce4e6b-e599-465a-b99b-76c6199b55d7 
Sensors:   Error: You do not have the sensors app installed.
Info:      Processes 143 Uptime 0:14 Memory 936.9/3927.6MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.7.9

and the wireless device output from: /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep Network -A2


04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 [8086:4235]
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1121]
	Kernel driver in use: iwlagn

and the graphic device output from /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep VGA -A2


01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series [1002:95c4]
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:029f]
	Kernel driver in use: radeon
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I’ve always run a second OS on a separate partition and have tried various (ubuntu, mint and others). For a while now though, I’ve been running the factory version of opensuse. I keep it updated so I currently have 12.1 m2 which is running like a released issue. The only problem I had was with nvidia proprietory drivers but that was solved when nvidia issued 275.09.07 almost immediately.
Like a previous poster, I could use it as my main setup as it seems so stable, though I’m sure that could change with future upgrades. I’ve not had to report any bugs but my usage is limited.

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Aha!! I was able to install the latest Nvidia driver “NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-275.09.07.run”.

Before installing I used the following extra steps:

Type in:

  1. su -
  2. cd /usr/src/linux
  3. make oldconfig && make prepare
  4. cd /home/myusername/
  5. sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-275.09.07.run

After the installation finished.

Type in:

  6. modprobe nvidia
  7. init 5

That fixed my problem.