On 16/07/17 20:34, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 15/07/17 13:36, John Andersen wrote:
On 07/14/2017 08:31 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 07/14/2017 01:30 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
Happiness is a correctly working openSUSE with the latest _proper_ nVidia driver -- NOT nouveau -- installed :-).
(And now to mess-up Leap 42.2...) Chuckling....
Glad you got it going BC.
I'm a bit ambivalent on the nvidia/nouveau issue. When compiz was king and proprietary drivers were needed to make it usable -- I completely agree with you. However, if not using the whiz-bang animations, the nouveau driver provides a lot of benefit that the proprietary driver can't or won't related to the default console itself. Like auto-sizing of the default console to optimal resolution. DPMS poweroff, etc.. Backlight control via /sys/class/backlight (although Kudos to Stefan and team for fixing http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1040718 so it works with the proprietary driver as well now :)
Now, of course, I'm no gamer, and I don't watch video, but for the couple of Webinar's I have watched, the nouveau driver did fine. If I did push the GPU more, then I may have more rocks to throw at nouveau, but I can happily report for the 6 months or so I used it with Leap 42.2 - I literally had no complaints. I do have the nvidia driver installed now, and I don't have any complaints there either -- other than the GPU temp does run a bit hotter with it -- but not enough to be any type of an issue, I suspect it's just using more of it than the nouveau driver does.
I'd still like to know where (what repository) one finds a opensuse 4.11 or 4.12 kernel that might work in 42.2 or 42.3. Here you go,John:
download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/
note the colon after 'Kernel'.
After you create this repo in Yast, search for 'kernel' in the packages and then click on Versions and the 4.12.x (the latest) will be shown -- and you know the rest about how to install it. I also suggest that you give this new kernel repo a priority level 95 (not the default of 99) so that any updates to the existing kernel in 42.2 and 42.3 doesn't come along and clobber the new 4.12.x kernel.
Hi John, I'll add a bit more to what I stated above re doing something so as not to clobber the 4.11 or 4.12 kernel from /repo/Kernel:/stable.... If you are using zypper to update your oS or even use Yast itself, both or either will try and re-install the original installed kernel ie, 4.4.x because in all probability it is marked as being installed in Yast's Version information. You will see what I mean if you: * start Yast * search for 'kernel' and you will see a number of entries with 'kernel' in them * highlight each one (by clicking on each one) and then select VERSION * you may see that kernel 4.4.x is still ticked as being installed even though 4.11/4.12 is also shown as installed and this last item is what will make zypper or Yast try an re-install 4.4.x kernel. To stop this re-installation of the 4.4.x kernel one has to do some heart-in-the-mouth fiddling which involves DELETING in the Version panel the 4.4.x kernel; Yast may then come up with dependency errors which you have to resolve before Yast will delete 4.4.x. You may have to go thru this process more than once. But you are not a newbie so I am sure that you will sort this out :-). And for all 'newbies' to this mail list, installing the kernel from the ../Kernel:/stable/... repo and doing the above manual fiddles: DO NOT DO ANY OF THE ABOVE -- stick with the kernel as installed, and progressively updated, when you first installed Leap of whatever flavour. You are stepping into a pit full of dragons if you try and do the above! Wait until you have gained more experience. BC -- You are NOT entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your INFORMED opinion. Nobody is entitled to be ignorant. Harlan Ellison -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org