* Gustav Degreef
On 08/27/2015 07:04 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Gustav Degreef
[08-27-15 12:39]: [...] Thanks both of you for all the info/tips. I re-installed from scratch 13.2 and now I am putting together the summary of the nvidia driver installation from these mails. I'll post the results. Gustav
Perhaps a better approach would be to maintain a stable system with conditions known and after trying different configurations, you return your system to original state (pre trials) so knowing what "makes it better" can be realized rather than a lot of haphazard (not entirely) stab-work.
Future, follow one person's advise to entirety, before reverting to original state to follow anothers. Everyone does things differently, isn't linux nice, and frequently the "mix" doesn't provide the desired outcome.
gud luk,
In general it sounds like good sensible advice. I don't know how to have a more "stable" system.
You miss the point entirely! It is about trouble-shooting and solving problems, it relates to "achieving" a "stable" system, not having a stable system to trouble-shoot.
As I mentioned this is a "test" system, though I do use it to project movies to a TV via HDMI cable, so it is also an "entertainment" system.
Makes no difference.
I am not an early adopter, so I have waited till upgrades are fully supported and only have done them by not skipping releases. So I experiment, but cautiously.
Also not relevant.
I am not a computer expert, I am a physician. I used vmware server in past till it no longer worked well in suse. Now I use virtual box (rpm's from oracle), and I also use wine and dosemu (all to run a number of ms medical and accessibility apps - dos, XP, vista and win7). My first, second and third choice is to do it with linux (98 % of the time).
Also not relevant.
Computers crash, become obsolete, I swap my machine with my partner when I need to fix her linux installation. How to keep better track of the changes? It is not a rhetorical question, I struggle with remaining organized, not only with computers.
Also not relevant. The point is about trouble-shooting the same system, with the "exact" same circumstances so the correct path can be realized to correct a problem. Without this would be no different than trying to solve your display problem not knowing that you were changing the adapter each time you attempted another solution/test/install/.... gud luk, -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org