Am 17.08.19 um 03:34 schrieb Basil Chupin:
On 16/8/19 8:47 pm, Daniel Bauer wrote:
Am 14.08.19 um 14:30 schrieb Daniel Bauer:
Now, this system seems not to be able to handle my Nvidia GeForce GTX 460. It freezes all the time. If it doesn't freeze the desktop effects get switched off due to "restart of graphics". When I log out and in, the desktop icons spread somehow over the screen and I have to reorder them - each and every time. Bug reports are not seen, obviously.
Thanks for all the input! I'm trying all your hints one by one.
The freezes occur randomly, it's hard to test. Sometimes it freezes right after reboot, sometimes within some minutes, the longest "unfreezed state" was during 21 hours, and then it freezed... Yesterday was terrible, it wasn't usable, as it freezed immediately or within minutes like 20 times...
So I have to apply one hint after the other and then see over (maybe longer) time, if it works.
The last thing I did was changing KDE system settings -> display -> compositor, "Ausgabemodul" from OpenGL 2.0 to 3.1.
The computer is running now since 22:30h without freeze. Fingers crossed.
Hi Daniel,
When was the last time you cleaned out the inside of your desktop? When you do, do you check that all the cards are sitting firmly in their slots, cables properly attached? And what about the fan on the 460 -- is it clean and rotating freely (and possibly overheating if not)?
I cleaned to whole computer just before installing 15.1, also because I added memory, a ssd-drive, and another harddisk... I keep an eye on temperatures, as I had the problem of dirty fans years ago, and GPU as well as processors are mostly at about 50°C. Only when freezing CPU and GPU usage goes up a lot (I hear the fans working harder). Checking the proper connection of the card and the cables was the first I did. Meanwhile the system is up and running for 1d 19:57h ... without freeze. Is it possible that it was just the OpenGL setting that caused all those problems?
And as a final comment, you really should compile yourself the Nvidia driver rather than having it installed from the openSUSE Nvidia repository (see also Patrick's earlier comment).
I remember (many) years ago I compiled them myself. As much as I remember after each kernel-update - quite often - I couldn't log in in the graphics system and had to re-compile the driver and make a new init.rd (IIRC), before I could continue to work. Since then grub has changed, the new systemd was introduced and I feel very insecure. So, if I can get it running with the opensuse rpm I'd prefer... -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org