On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 15:39, Bogdan Cristea wrote:
On Wednesday 10 November 2010 16:31:46 Matt Hayes wrote:
I can tell you why I do: better performance with Nvidia drivers (latest). I was having issues with KDE seeming to lockup for short periods. After I updated my kernel to the kernel in Kernel:HEAD and reinstalled the kernel module, bliss has settled!
I don't have issues with KDE after installing nvidia driver, but the desktop looks a little strange and the vertical refresh rate is 60 Hz instead of 75 Hz. Maybe I should update too for a newer kernel. Thanks for the tip.
Before you do this, it might be worth doing some digging in the archives on Kernel:HEAD topics. Kernel 2.6.35 was fairly painless to update to, but Kernel:Head now has 2.6.36 which does throw a bit of a wobble under certain conditions.. VBox for example... some people have had issues getting the latest nVidia drivers working... a few other issues have been raised. That said, there is a huge improvement for most of us when we bumped up to a higher version kernel. Oh, I'd also recommend you set the option to allow multi kernel - that way you can roll back to your working 2.6.34 if things don't quite go so well with a 2.6.36 kernel. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org