On 07.05.2018 17:47, Knurpht @ openSUSE wrote:
Op maandag 7 mei 2018 17:39:29 CEST schreef Daniel Bauer:
On 06.05.2018 15:32, Koenraad Lelong wrote:
Hi,
I'm researching for a new laptop. I think the main issue is video. Is there a manufacturer I should avoid (NVidia/AMD) ? ...
The "double-gpu's" with nvidia ("optimus") do *not* work on opensuse. It is as disaster. Buy the cheapest box you find, opensuse doesn't deserve better. Or stay with a mobile phone.
If you think I am angry about that, you guessed absolutely right.
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Sorry, but the generalization here is nonsense. I did install ( recently, on a couple of recent laptops with dual grahics ) and albeit needing some tinkering, it works fine. Unless my customers do not report non-functional laptops, which I doubt.
Ok, my rant was hard, I know. But having my laptop with non-working nvidia is nonsense, too. Expensive nonsense. The change - what ever it was - that made switching from intel to nvidia impossible, causes me great problems every single day. It's an important problem for me and I lost nerves because right now I had to work some hours with this half-baked intel solution. Things that would have gone much faster if optimus worked. I was searching for help on this list. I have filed a bug report with all details I could imagine to be helpful. ( https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1088287 ) I was searching google for many hours, trying what ever I could find. No, nvidia does not run on my laptop. If you (and Peter) say it works on your laptops I would be *extremely* interested on how to achieve this, too. And yes, I know one should not empty it's "overcooking pan" on this list. I always try to avoid it. But as this affects me so much, I just couldn't. Sorry. -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona 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