There seems to be an issue with the nouveau drivers and Plasma 5.
The desktop environment will become frozen within 10 minutes of use;
yet, the mouse cursor is still movable.
I installed Xfce and noticed that it does not suffer from the freezing.
It does however suffer from tearing.
I tried various things to solve that,
including installing the official nvidia drivers.
The problem was not solved;
however, when I switched back to Plasma 5,
I noticed that the freezing is gone,
and there is no tearing. :-]
My steps for installing the driver:
- downloaded the driver from the nvidia website
- used the sh command on the downloaded driver
- quit the installation after it talks about blacklisting nouveau
- ran the mkinitrd command
- rebooted
- sudo zypper install gcc
- sudo zypper install make
- su -c “zypper in -t pattern devel_kernel”
- used the sh command on the downloaded driver
I see now this is mostly the same as https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_the_hard_way
Hopefully someone can figure out why the freezing happens;
“Joe Average” is going to be discouraged by this bug,
which is unfortunate.
I’m liking openSUSE & Plasma!
Thanks!
