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Von: jdd

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AFAIK if you select the nvidia repository in community, you get the openSUSE free part, but also the proprietary one. I did and had to revert to nouveau on my 5 years old computer

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Yes and..no. Depends. I am running here on the very same machine Tumbleweed and leap (no dual boot but selection via BIOS). I have in TW the nouveau driver in Leap the Nvidia prop driver. The machine is approximately 12 Years old, BIOS is from 2003 and the Graphics is a "soutraitant" (how do you say this in English, maybe a licensee? In short one of these pop-up industries staying on the market for a few years) with a chip dating from about 8 years ago supported by G02 and G03. Both work, with nouveau I had severe regressions (flicker, slowness, crashes etc) with the 4.3 kernel that went fading with 4.4. With the proprietary driver on leap, the system was faster in video playing, more capable to handle heavy graphics load. So apparently even after so long time you do have some performance or function issues, all fruit of Nvidias policy (you remember the famous "finger"). When you install without the Nvidia repo you get the newest nouveau. Then when you install Nvidia, there is AFAIK, only the trinity of the three generations of the proprietary driver. Here the situation is: If your device is supported only by the gfxG01 driver, you are nouveau, because the G01 has been taken out of support and is not included any more. It has been taken out since 13.1. You then have the gfxG02 up to G03 that was "usual business" and where running in parallel supporting both partially the same devices but the G03 goes more into modern ones. The G04 is the newest branch (and afaik) the one necessary for really modern cards. If you have a modern card the device should be selected "automagically" but I found for mine that I had to select by hand. I think that may have changed due to several driver-versions supporting the same card. Normally, if you then take off for any reason the Nvidia driver that automatically activates the nouveau driver, as it is not uninstalled by the proprietary one but "blacklisted". One can check on the Nvidia site to find out if ones graphic chip is supported and by which driver. This is AFAIK. Greetings. P.S. if you like to loose time and have fun, just try to open in parallel the selections of 13.1 and 13.2 64 bit there is the difference. http://http.download.nvidia.com/opensuse/13.1/x86_64/ http://http.download.nvidia.com/opensuse/13.2/x86_64/ --- Mail & Cloud Made in Germany mit 3 GB Speicher! https://email.freenet.de/mail/Uebersicht?epid=e9900000450 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org