Around F19 or F20 my old nVidia card died. I replaced it with a GeForce GTX 660 but did not bother (think) to update the nVidia driver so I've been running the 304xx drivers along with my GeForce GTX 660 card just fine with KDE as my desktop.
Of course, F22 came along which brought Plasma-5 to KDE. I started to have problems that I attributed to Plasma-5. After some time artifacts would appear in systray and popup areas of the systray when the mouse hovered over a process. Also at least once a day I'd lose everything on the systray and have to restart plasma.
This past Saturday I decided to move to the 340xx drivers, yes I know I really should have moved to 352 now, since that is what my faulty memory told me to do.
Anyway, the artifacts haven't reappeared and the systray hasn't needed restarting in the past 2 days. Additionally another problem seems to no longer exist. Previously when I closed the chrome browser several chrome process would be left running. With the "new" drivers this is not the case.
I don't think I am the only person that has decided to use nVidia drivers instead of nouveau. But my experience may be something to keep in mind when chasing Plasma-5 problems.
On 08/23/2015 10:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
I don't think I am the only person that has decided to use nVidia drivers instead of nouveau. But my experience may be something to keep in mind when chasing Plasma-5 problems.
For me, the latest nVidia driver makes konsole go blank when maximizing it, with no apparent way to recover. Doesn't happen with nouveau.
On 08/24/15 23:00, Glenn Holmer wrote:
On 08/23/2015 10:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
I don't think I am the only person that has decided to use nVidia drivers instead of nouveau. But my experience may be something to keep in mind when chasing Plasma-5 problems.
For me, the latest nVidia driver makes konsole go blank when maximizing it, with no apparent way to recover. Doesn't happen with nouveau.
I hardly ever maximize windows and when it happens it is mostly by accident. And, yes, I they do go to black sometimes when they are returned to their original size but they are OK again if they are put on the systray and restored. At least for me.
The only point I was trying to make was that some issues with plasma may be falsely attributed to it, which I did, while it is really the video driver which is to blame.
Am 25.08.2015 um 02:48 schrieb Ed Greshko:
The only point I was trying to make was that some issues with plasma may be falsely attributed to it, which I did, while it is really the video driver which is to blame.
well, the same was told after KDE3 - KDE4 and when before update KDE the same driver and hardware worked without issues i put my userhat on and just blame KDE
while it may be true that it's a driver issue which was worked around in the previous major version the only thing i have to say is:
then damned stop rebuild everything from scratch every few years when the expierience shows that each single time the user expierience goes down and all the ugly code needs to be re-invited because it was the glue fixing the ugly bugs - as user it don't bother me what piece of the software stack is guilty, someone decided to replace working software with non working software and badly affects my expierience and that someone is to blame
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