First i want say that i know that openSUSE team (and others) make good work for building opensource distro’s.
But you can’t say that the plasma5 and nvidia is good, it’s more than 2 years now for me that the combo of nvidia and plasma5 is a horror film.
Even now with tumbleweed from 10nov 2016 is it hard to get a stable OS, i switched today 5 pc’s laptops to it (instead of going from 42.1 to leap 42.2)
3 off them was terrible…
openSUSE (and maby others) make it very hard to move people to use the software
Why is it so hard to make a stable plasma for kde.
And why is openSUSE choosing plasma5 as default? is it’s not working on any nvidia pc that i know…
my opinion is that opensource distro’s become less stable than 5 years ago!
How do you update your systems?
There are issues, yes, related to Plasma5 and nouveau, but the fix is already available and if you update your TW with zypper dup, you should have the Mesa-dri-nouveau package.
For the Leap versions ready made packages are available ( 42.2 after it’s release ).
As for me personally, i have a couple of NVIDIA based systems that I manage which run Leap with the nouveau drivers, no issues at all. Also the 42.2 RC2 on my son’s laptop ( NVIDIA only ) works fine, using dkms and the NVIDIA driver.
I did fresh install of tumbleweed but keeping the plasma5.8.3 home from leap 42.1
after boot: blank screen or freezing the desktop… even “Mesa-dri-nouveau” is installed
unable to start for installing nvidia driver the hard way in this case…
OK i know how to do it, but as normal user?!
usb install on 2 machines didn’t work with the same iso (hanging detecting on some hardware on start
dvd install works fine…
> Cloddy;2799737 Wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 17:46:01 GMT
> > peteh100 <peteh100@no-mx.forums.microfocus.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I changed back to the nvidia proprietary driver probably 2 years
> > > ago. I’ve had no trouble with plasma.
> >
> > In the past decade, I’ve had as much trouble with the proprietary
> > drivers as with nouveau so I like to have a belt available as well
> > as braces.
> >
> > –
> > Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK.
> > openSUSE 42.1; KDE Plasma 5.8.2; Qt 5.7.0; Kernel 4.8.6;
> > AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor; Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA);
> > Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (Driver: nouveau)
> How do you get your quoted text different from most (all?) others?
>
>
Perhaps because I’m using NNTP? My newsreader (Claws), like others,
also automatically removes sigs.
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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK.
openSUSE 42.1; KDE Plasma 5.8.2; Qt 5.7.0; Kernel 4.8.5;
AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor; Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA);
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (Driver: nouveau)
I never had a problem with nvidia on tumbleweed, leap 42.1 and now leap 42.2 with plasma5.
In this machine this is my third nvidia card replacement,and all worked well.
I am using the .run driver from nvidia as soon as I am done installing the operating system.
