Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1898 mails)

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On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 14:10, Istvan Gabor wrote:
> > True... but.. it's old and desperately needs to be updated.  As I
> > said.. 256.35 is the latest driver.  Install it... see if your video
> > problems are still there.  I had significant graphical issues with
> > KDE4 until I updated the vid drivers.
>
> This is very strange. If openSUSE offers KDE4, should not it provide the 
> drivers as well
> that KDE4 can work with?

KDE4 works with the Nouveau driver... kind of... it also works with
195.. kinda.  If someone is bumping into graphical artifacts wile use
KDE4 and either Nouveau or a really old nVidia binary driver... they
can't blame KDE4 for that... it's a driver issue.  For example, icons
on the taskbar would "glitch" and turn into a messy blob of colors...
it's been discussed in a few places.. solution.. install the latest
nVidia driver.

Why is 195 the latest available instead of 256?  Lack of a maintainer?
 See this thread:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2010-07/msg00391.html

By the way installing the binary nVidia driver compiling is a royal
pain in 11.3... involves disabling KVM and blacklisting Nouveau among
other things.


C.
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