Am 14.08.19 um 14:30 schrieb Daniel Bauer:
Hi,
unfortunately quite working 42.3 had to be replaced with 15.1 due to end of security updates which are important to me.
Now, this system seems not to be able to handle my Nvidia GeForce GTX 460. It freezes all the time. If it doesn't freeze the desktop effects get switched off due to "restart of graphics". When I log out and in, the desktop icons spread somehow over the screen and I have to reorder them - each and every time. Bug reports are not seen, obviously.
Problem is, that this is my working computer and since two days I simply cannot work with it.
I know that Opensuse cuts functionality in each release since 13.x, but I didn't imagine that it simply would stop being usable at all.
Now I have two possibilities: - buy another graphics card that will maybe work a year or two until OpenSuse decides to stop working with it, too. - install another operating system.
Both possibilities are complicated. I am with openSuse since 20 years, and it has always bettered until the regression started from 13.x. I'd have to learn a new system. Windows is excluded, as it makes me sick. So could be ubuntu?
A new graphics card is expensive (I need quite a lot of power). Also I don't have any idea which one. One that fulfills my needs on one side, and that is supported by OpenSuse which I think is not really made anymore for a graphic desktop, more for a pure console computer, server or the like.
What do you recommend? Give it a try with ubuntu? Buy another graphics card? Which?
Hi daniel, i personally do not use nvidia i use since a long long time >10 years amd graphic. - never had any problems or unsupported (also old cards work fine with opensource drivers. but if you like to get help here: what desktop? kde? gnome? xfe? .....? opensource driver or special nvida driver, if nvidia from where, how installed? updated system or installed new? at least with fresh installed system an with opensource driver you should not have a problem. they should run out of the box. so the problem seems to be somewhere else. .... and if the only problem are the "spread around symbols" it depends what destop you have, as example on lxde (raspbian) you could change access of the 2 files: ~/.config/pcmanfm/LXDE-pi/ desktop-items-0.conf pcmanfm.conf to root root (after you have reorganized your desktop) then your desktop will always start with the same position of symbols regardless if you move theme around during work.......... simoN ps: and yes, i personally like old opensuse (11.4) much more than newer versions, because all get much much more complicated. "old" linux was made to be easy accessible for humans, log files, config files all plain text. now linux world will get more and more like windows, you need xml editors or special commands to read and configure things.......... systemd makes it from the view of my eyes more complicate, and so on..... www.becherer.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org