On 13.07.2018 14:20, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
Daniel Bauer wrote:
sometimes (often!) one window or one message (like the alert when mails arrive) flickers.
In text windows like this email or in kwrite or in console sometimes the text hops up and down some lines, sometimes freshly written text appears and disappears and the former text lines reformat. Sometimes a website in firefox (or any other browser) flickers, hops up and down for maybe 50 pixels, sometimes in digikam the album tree appears and disappears.
You are using the intel driver( xf86-video-intel). That one has the same issues on my laptop, it's hardly usable.
Likely mentioned before: Remove it (rpm -e xf86-video-intel). Then the default Mesa modesetting driver should be used. That one does run better. I'm on Tumbleweed, there the latest version of modesetting has issues with changing resolution (e.g., via xrandr) but 42.3 is likely not affected by that.
I entered this "rpm -e xf86-video-intel" as root. There was no feedback from the system, simply the command prompt appeared on the next line. I checked in Yast and searching for xf86-video-intel shows to packages, none installed.
So: still the question: is there any way to make the nvidia graphics run on Linux?
Depends what you call 'make run'.
Most beautiful was suse-prime when it still worked: I could simply switch between both graphics cards. As this is not available anymore (or does not work) I'd prefer to have simply using the nvidia card all the time (I mostly use the laptop plugged to electricity so I don't care too much about battery life) I'm also having an optimus (HD530/940MX) on
my Lenovo T460p. I only use it for some programs. For that I use bumblebee, from the X11:Bumblebee repository. IIRC there's a portal page somewhere. basically you need bumblebee, primus, bbswitch, nvidia-bumblebee (and their dependencies). I can nicely run stuff on my nvidia card using optirun application
e.g.,
woodstock:~% optirun glxspheres Polygons in scene: 62464 (61 spheres * 1024 polys/spheres) Visual ID of window: 0x13c Context is Direct OpenGL Renderer: GeForce 940MX/PCIe/SSE2 62.371853 frames/sec - 69.606987 Mpixels/sec
I always refrained from using bumblebee, because - I'd have to start programs from command line, but most of my work is using "open with" in digikam to open kuickshow and gimp, or clicking in dolphin with the same goal. Often several images at a time. Opening the images from command line or again selecting file-open within GIMP etc. would make impossible my work flow and cause /much/ more time and effort plus source of errors - how could I enable nvidia this way for a windows session in Virtualbox? There I process the huge (50MB) photo files from my camera and a strong graphics card would be so very much appreciated - the reason I bought this laptop... Do I se this wrong. If so, correct me please. -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer http://www.daniel-bauer.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org