Am Sonntag, 21. Juni 2015, 16:31:24 schrieb Ken Savage:
I had blacklisted the nouveau driver, and definitely had pixels up, so I know the nvidia driver was doing (some of) its trickery.
Well, Xorg could also fall back to something else (modesetting, fbdev, or vesa) if nvidia cannot be loaded, which would require Mesa's software renderer for OpenGL then...
I know to recompile/reinstall the driver whenever the kernel was updated, but I don't always do kernel updates all the time (ie: lock the package until I'm darn good and ready to perform a reboot) ... so I had not deemed it necessary to do anything with the video driver.
Your mention of Mesa lead me to reassess that assumption ;)
After downloading and installing the latest drivers, presto, I'm back to my happy, compositing, KDE5 environment. Sorry LXDE, nice to know you.
The nvidia driver in particular replaces some of Mesa's libraries (libGL e.g.), so an update to Mesa also requires a reinstallation of nvidia, because nvidia's versions are replaced by the standard (Mesa's) ones again. That's probably the biggest reason to prefer the nvidia RPM packages (not available for Tumbleweed though). You can automatically "workaround" kernel updates with dkms e.g.
Thanks, Wolfgang for your hints there!
You're welcome. I'm glad your problems are solved. Kind Regards, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org