nvidia + linux

[Stephen Partington]

Currently i Run Only 2 2 2k and 1 1080p no disconnects, no blips nothing. i
even sent audio over hdmi with success.

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Michael Butash <mike at butash.net> wrote:

> How many displays do you run Stephen?  Do they ever disconnect, or go away
> like a laptop being detached between home and work?
>
> Do you use kde display to manage them, nvidia-settings, some combination
> of both?  Do you have it write an xorg.conf?
>
> Quick test if you'd humor me - detach a display hard that the system is
> setup for, and tell me how bad kde freaks out in moving stuff around if you
> do so a few times.  Even better, detach all of them, and reconnect them all
> back, which is what mine effectively do.  My samsung tv's show disconnected
> to the gpu when I power them down, so the desktop is essentially left with
> "no displays", and then loses its mind.
>
> KDE usually handles me disconnecting displays once, randomly moving the
> task bar around, resetting my wallpapers, and moving my in-use windows
> about.  It puts things back in a pretty wishy-washy fashion, but another
> disconnect of the displays causes it to lose its mind entirely, crashing to
> usually even get displays showing anything again.  Reboot time then.
>
> I went to 16.04 with plasmas 5 because plasma4 was so fundamentally broken
> with xrandr it would never work right for placement of displays (abandoned
> support for kde4), and plasma5 while attempts to, is still horribly broken
> it seems.  Can't seem to win with it.
>
> There is a novel-length bug posted on this behavior myself and others have
> been posting information to KDE folks for, but oddly just doesn't seem most
> people have run into this when displays "go away".
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356225
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 11/25/2016 03:01 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:
>
> I have had no issues running Kbuntu and the 1070 with the binary drivers
> from repo.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Michael Butash <mike at butash.net> wrote:
>
>> So far I am NOT impressed with my choice to go with nvidia, as the
>> graphics change from amd has caused everything to become entirely unstable
>> again.
>>
>
>


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rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen
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