On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 18:03 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 25/03/12 07:43, Paul Ollion wrote:
Hello knowledgeable people I have just installed OpenSuse 12.1 on a not very young PC with AMD Athlon processor socker 362 ; 1048 Mhz and 1.5 Gb. ram What do you think of it ? Is there a way out ? Your problem is the driver for the nVidia card. The "nouveau" driver is a piece of, ahem,....I cannot say it in polite company :-) .
This statement is extremely unfair. Nouveau works *great*, much better than the proprietary driver on lots of hardware. Just not *all* hardware. I use nouveau on my workstation [GeForce 8400 GS] and my laptop [GeForce GT 230M (NB10P GE)] - on both it works perfectly - and fast. On my laptop I can plug in an external display, have it just-work, unplug it and be left with a working single display. If I use the properietary driver connecting an external display requires me to use the nvidia tool to redetect the display and getting it to work is very hit-n-miss. Thank goodness of the awesomeness that is nouveau [provided you have the right hardware]. On the other hand - that same laptop with openSUSE 11.x - I had to use the proprietary drivers to get decent performance. Times change.
Install the *real* - that is as in "macho" :-) NVIDIA driver and you will see a big difference.
Or that makes it nearly impossible to use a secondary display.