On Saturday, May 05, 2012 04:42:24 AM C wrote:
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 4:02 AM, George Olson
wrote: It seems that the error is related to the nouveau driver for my nvidia display, and I googled to find that some other people have had related problems with the nouveau driver (though I didn't see any on SUSE forums, only other distros).
I am using my desktop (box #1 below) and the driver description is more accurate to be listed like this: nVidia C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a]
The big question is this. Is it better to get a proprietary nVidia driver, and will that make my graphics generally perform better, as well as not have the system lockups?
The nVidia driver available from the nVidia repositories is x11-video-nvidiaG02. I sometimes read people not wanting to use proprietary drivers so I am hesitant, thinking this might cause more problems than it solves. Any ideas?
I've (almost) always had good success with the NVidia binary driver. I'm using it now with no problems at all. In most cases, the people not wanting to use the proprietary driver is out of principle (wanting only open source software) and not based on issues with the driver. There are at times hiccups with the binary driver as there is with any software, but the current version 295 in the repos is not giving any troubles.
Add the NVidia community repository in YaST, install the driver and try it out. If it doesn't work for you, you can always roll back to the Nouveau driver.
C. -- openSUSE 12.1 x86_64, KDE 4.8.2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Just a comment I had been woriking fine past releases (oS-11.2., 11.3, 11.4) with Nouveau- Mesa 3D driver pretty fine. Now same machiine openSUSE 12.1 with Nouveau (3D integrated) gave me a lot of pain (flickering, choppy, and some freezes). So, I tried Nvidia propietary driver vers. 295 and it gave me a smooth behavior. The video adapter is Nvidia Quadro G98M [ NVS 160M ] So you could try it too to test it. If it doesn't work for you roll it back. Regards, -- Ricardo Chung | Panama openSUSE Linux Ambassador openSUSE 11.4 | KDE 4.7 | Mesa-Nouveau 3D Linux for Education -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org