On 8/14/19 8:30 AM, Daniel Bauer wrote:
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?
Isn't your fundamental problem with the nvidia Optimus technology? If so, then the other suggestions posted won't probably help you. On the other hand, if the issue is not Optimus, then stop reading this here and ignore below . . . For Optimus: Have you tried using suse-prime? This is the opensuse version of the Ubuntu package. It is intended to support switching between the nvidia gpu and the intel gpu on your laptop's motherboard. The version in the 15.1 repo is .5, but a newer version (.68) is available in a community repo (use "Get Software" on the opensuse home page). You may also want to try plasma5-applet-suse-prime. Note however that prime is really only a workaround. While it is possible that Ubuntu's prime may work when opensuse's does not, it is much more likely both will perform the same. These are essentially just scripts that switch between the nvidia and intel gpu's. This method is not dynamic, and consequently cannot provide power management of the nvidia gpu, which could result in a substantial hit on the battery. (You might gain some advantage by using a lighter-weight display manager, like xfce.) The proper solution is a change in the nvidia driver architecture. Good news: Dynamic gpu switching is now available since the nvidia 435.17 driver; the opensuse repo has 430.34 and will soon have 430.40, all described at the link below. Bad news: Only 600 geforce and newer cards are supported, and even then only yet newer gpu's get power management. Which means that your gtx 460 is out of luck, the only solution available to you is a prime package above. https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1060977/announcements-and-news/-lin... http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/435.17/README/primerenderoff... As far as finding an alternative card, that is not an opensuse consideration, it depends upon nvidia. You can search on the nvidia site for supported cards and the necessary driver version. --dg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org