* David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> [07-14-17 23:33]:
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.
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