On 15/07/17 13:31, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 07/14/2017 01:30 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
Happiness is a correctly working openSUSE with the latest _proper_ nVidia driver -- NOT nouveau -- installed :-).
(And now to mess-up Leap 42.2...) Chuckling....
Glad you got it going BC.
I'm a bit ambivalent on the nvidia/nouveau issue. When compiz was king and proprietary drivers were needed to make it usable -- I completely agree with you. However, if not using the whiz-bang animations, the nouveau driver provides a lot of benefit that the proprietary driver can't or won't related to the default console itself. Like auto-sizing of the default console to optimal resolution. DPMS poweroff, etc.. Backlight control via /sys/class/backlight (although Kudos to Stefan and team for fixing http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1040718 so it works with the proprietary driver as well now :)
Now, of course, I'm no gamer, and I don't watch video, but for the couple of Webinar's I have watched, the nouveau driver did fine. If I did push the GPU more, then I may have more rocks to throw at nouveau, but I can happily report for the 6 months or so I used it with Leap 42.2 - I literally had no complaints. I do have the nvidia driver installed now, and I don't have any complaints there either -- other than the GPU temp does run a bit hotter with it -- but not enough to be any type of an issue, I suspect it's just using more of it than the nouveau driver does.
Well, I use my monitor to watch TV HD channels, watching Blu-ray videos, and also doing some photo work using Gimp. For me the nouveau driver just doesn't cut it, I'm afraid. Besides, why eat chuck steak when one can have fillet? :-). BC -- You are NOT entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your INFORMED opinion. Nobody is entitled to be ignorant. Harlan Ellison -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org