Am 14.08.19 um 15:14 schrieb Simon Becherer:
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.
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? .....?
KDE plasma
opensource driver or special nvida driver, if nvidia from where, how installed? updated system or installed new?
NVidia drivre from opensuse repository (see post more up with all details)
at least with fresh installed system an with opensource driver you should not have a problem.
It's a fresh install from scratch, even on new virgin disks, some weeks ago. It worked fine until two days ago.
they should run out of the box.
They did. They don't anymore :-(
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..........
This is only one of the problems. I found an ungly "semi-solution" just this morning before the latest freeze...: Obviously somehow KDE (or X or whatever) thinks my screen is smaller than it actually is (1980x1200px). All icons from the most right two rows are distributed randomly after re-login, one outside the screen height so that a scroll line appears. Where ever I look the resolution is correct. HwInfo gives the right size, KDE settings, too. Now, when I leave the most right two rows empty, icons stay where they are. Still after login for a second a scroll line appears and then disappears. Something's not ok, but although ugly and 10cm of the screen not usable for icons (even worse since icons cannot be placed freely anymore), I could live with that, if it was only that. I cannot live with the freezes, though. They make it impossible to work.
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.....
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