It will help for Kepler and older hardware (NVS 295) (with firmware from Nvidia), will not help for Maxwell and newer one (Quadro K2200).
OK, I’m on Leap 15.3, installed libvdpau-nvidia, logged out and in again, started kaffeine
kaffeine
21-08-21 21:36:42.499 [Info ] **kaffeine.dvb:** Using built-in dvb device manager
21-08-21 21:36:42.806 [Info ] **kaffeine.dev:** Found dvb device P14f188800070c108: NXP TDA10071
21-08-21 21:36:42.825 [Info ] **kaffeine.dev:** Found dvb device P14f188800070c108: Silicon Labs Si
2165 DVB-T DVB-C
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
**00007f5da4006e90**] gl gl: **Initialized libplacebo v2.43.1**
**00007f5da4006e90**] gl gl: **Initialized libplacebo v2.43.1**
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or d
irectory
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
**00007f5da4006e90**] gl gl: **Initialized libplacebo v2.43.1**
…same difference…
Post:
zypper se -s vdpau
sudo zypper se -s vdpau
[sudo] password for root:
Retrieving repository 'KDE_Unstable_Extra' metadata ..............................................[done]
Building repository 'KDE_Unstable_Extra' cache ...................................................[done]
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
---+-------------------------+---------+--------------+--------+------------------------
i+ | libva-vdpau-driver | package | 0.7.4-7.5 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
v | libva-vdpau-driver | package | 0.7.4-7.5 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau-devel | package | 1.4-3.4 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau-devel | package | 1.4-3.4 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau-devel-32bit | package | 1.4-3.4 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
i+ | libvdpau1 | package | 1.4-3.4 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
v | libvdpau1 | package | 1.4-3.4 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau1-32bit | package | 1.4-3.4 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
i+ | libvdpau_nouveau | package | 21.1.6-283.2 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
v | libvdpau_nouveau | package | 21.1.6-283.2 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau_nouveau-32bit | package | 21.1.6-283.2 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau_r300 | package | 21.1.6-283.2 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau_r300 | package | 21.1.6-283.2 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau_r300-32bit | package | 21.1.6-283.2 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau_r600 | package | 21.1.6-283.2 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau_r600 | package | 21.1.6-283.2 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau_r600-32bit | package | 21.1.6-283.2 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau_radeonsi | package | 21.1.6-283.2 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau_radeonsi | package | 21.1.6-283.2 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau_radeonsi-32bit | package | 21.1.6-283.2 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau_trace1 | package | 1.4-3.4 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau_trace1 | package | 1.4-3.4 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau_trace1-32bit | package | 1.4-3.4 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau_va_gl1 | package | 0.4.2-2.5 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau_va_gl1 | package | 0.4.2-2.5 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| libvdpau_va_gl1-32bit | package | 0.4.2-2.5 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
i+ | vlc-vdpau | package | 3.0.16-4.7 | x86_64 | packman
v | vlc-vdpau | package | 3.0.16-4.7 | i586 | packman
v | vlc-vdpau | package | 3.0.16-1.3 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
v | vlc-vdpau | package | 3.0.16-1.3 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
| vlc-vdpau-debuginfo | package | 3.0.16-4.7 | x86_64 | packman
| vlc-vdpau-debuginfo | package | 3.0.16-4.7 | i586 | packman
and kaffeine (and VLC) video output looks quite good now! But sound is totally chopped, both VLC and kaffeine.
The internal sound card is disabled in BIOS (activated it, but no improvement), I use an additional soundcard:
sudo lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5400 Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 20)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5400 Chipset PCI Express Port 1 (rev 20)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5400 Chipset PCI Express Port 5 (rev 20)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5400 Chipset PCI Express Port 9 (rev 20)
00:10.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5400 Chipset FSB Registers (rev 20)
00:10.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5400 Chipset FSB Registers (rev 20)
00:10.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5400 Chipset FSB Registers (rev 20)
00:10.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5400 Chipset FSB Registers (rev 20)
00:10.4 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5400 Chipset FSB Registers (rev 20)
00:11.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5400 Chipset CE/SF Registers (rev 20)
00:15.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5400 Chipset FBD Registers (rev 20)
00:15.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5400 Chipset FBD Registers (rev 20)
00:16.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5400 Chipset FBD Registers (rev 20)
00:16.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5400 Chipset FBD Registers (rev 20)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 09)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #1 (rev 09)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #2 (rev 09)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #3 (rev 09)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #4 (rev 09)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset EHCI USB2 Controller (rev 09)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d9)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 09)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB IDE Controller (rev 09)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB SATA AHCI Controller (rev 09)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 09)
**01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G98 [Quadro NVS 295] (rev a1)**
03:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Upstream Port (rev 01)
03:00.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express to PCI-X Bridge (rev 01)
04:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Downstream Port E1 (rev 01)
04:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Downstream Port E2 (rev 01)
06:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23887/8 PCIe Broadcast Audio and Video Dec
oder with 3D Comb (rev 04)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Expre
ss (rev 02)
**09:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs EMU20k1 [Sound Blaster X-Fi Series] **
09:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [iOHCI-
Lynx]
Any ideas? That would make me very happy, to have nice sound again…
So why:
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Do you installed any Nvidia driver?
ls -al /usr/lib64/vdpau/
Sorry it’s late for today. Sound problem solved by new user account. Kaffeine audio and video OK now!
But will take me hours to get my account settings back to normal. Pain!
Sometimes it’s the cache that’s responsible for the improvement from using a virgin account. To possibly save some work, try, while logged out of Plasma, removing ~/.cache/* on the original account, then using that account again. If that’s not enough, try again, plus deleting selected KDE settings files from ~/.config/, such as any for kaffeine, or sound generally (alsa, pulse*, etc.).
I deleted .cache content and alsa from .config for the old user (logged out) and rebooted. Sound did not improve.
Wow, the NVS 295 has some 86°C just watching a little TV (kaffeine) and two windows with VLC video streams…
Before it dies away I ordered a Radeon HD 7570, hope it arrives soon.
Radeon HD 7570 (Turks Pro-L). Terascale 2 chip, not GCN. But UVD 3.1.
Possibly you’ll encounter some troubles when you’ll swap Nvidia to Radeon.
Which kind of trouble? Why isn’t there a list of desktop graphics cards that works with linux? I’m quite tired now with this problem…
Such as system is trying to work with deleted card. So you need to create new boot image. And it is better to delete settings for Nvidia cards.
It is rather obvious: AMD and Intel work OK because of using open drivers (and opening tech specifications), Nvidia works good only with its closed-sourced drivers.
When proprietary graphics drivers for NVidia GPUs are installed, sometimes removing them is a can of worms.
Why isn’t there a list of desktop graphics cards that works with linux?
There weren’t any made in the past 15-20 years by AMD/ATI, Intel or NVidia that aren’t at least nominally supported, except for a short period after each new one’s introduction, or some in LTS distributions that were made before the LTS release; or some really really old problematic ones. The definition of support can also be a problem WRT features or functionality that didn’t exist before a particular card was produced.
Feel free to make such a list, if you expect you could keep it up to date. It’s probably an impossible task, and why no such list.
It shouldn’t be a list of ALL gra cards, but only of cards that have been shown to work without propr. drivers.
I never installed the NVIDIA driver on this TW, so what is recommended for switching to the AMD card, besides a shutdown and replacing the NVIDIA NVS 295? 
Are there any Intel cards for (low-level) desktop use?
Ensure no /etc/X11/xorg.conf exists, and no files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ that affect graphics exist, then install it and reboot. See how it works. Then uninstall xf86-video-ati (which provides radeon DDX driver) and reboot. Or if it was not already installed, install it and reboot. Keep whichever configuration turns out to work better. You might not be able to tell much difference, or one or more apps might work differently or not at all with one of the two. The upstream default is the newer technology modesetting DIX driver, which is not provided by any rpm that you can remove and still have any X at all.
Are there any Intel cards for (low-level) desktop use?
There were last century. Intel shortly dropped them. Very recently they announced a return to the discrete card market. I have yet to see any specs on the new ones.
We’re hoping to get them in 2022.
What is a good, cheap AMD graphics card, no 3D and stuff needed, that has good support? I scolled the AMD graphics Wikipedia article and pick a card I could find at nozamA (Radeon HD 7570).
Guess I need an additional card for another linux machine which currently has an NVS 310.
Any AMD card the Wikipedia article lists with GCN or newer should be fine.
My NVS 310 doesn’t give me any trouble. My TeraScale AMD cards don’t give trouble either, but they are getting pretty old.
Hi
I would go for GCN 2.0+ preferably higher if possible…
Important piece of information! 