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 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. > > KDE neon is a basketcase, again with these nvidia binary drivers. > Installing what I thought would have been generally resolved from 5.7.4 on > my amd build, with nvidia it's doing all the weird "unable to keep displays > straight in the wm" problem, and causes me to reboot daily when plasma > components finally just crash. This seems partially due to nvidia drivers > not playing well, as amd oss drivers were perfect when last I'd used 5.7.4. > > Eventually since it *was* working with my old intel mobo (z97+intel i7 > haswell cpu), I literally just popped in my old ssd and install I was using > for a year, installed nvidia drivers, and went to work with the new system, > a dual cpu xeon e5 v4 mobo. Yep, same buggy as hell with a clean neon > install as with my old ubuntu 16.04 with neon ppa overlays. Totally > different beast, bugs, instability, I couldn't even get luks to unlock my > disk at splash properly with this system. I got it working booting > single-user and disabling grub splash, but every time I power off displays, > kde entirely poops the bed and crashes. Wonderful, thanks guys. > > Game-wise, once I got to a workable os with my old ubuntu, The Witcher 2 > ran great with nvidia, much prettier than my amd with all the effects > cranked even at 3840x2160. Then I play Portal 2 and it crashes as soon as > I begin actually moving around past the intro. Shadow of Mordor was as > broken with nvidia binaries as it was with amd oss drivers, not rendering > half the main mesh object constructs in the game, including most of my > armor and the ground map. Not seeing most of the ground did give me a > slight tactical advantage in playing it, but not exactly the way I wished > to do so. > > All in all, my new system is proving most challenging to get anything to > behave on, and I'm thinking this 1070gtx card is just another whole new > devil I don't know, and debating if I even want to. > > Is this a consistent experience using nvidia and kde for others? Or nvidia > + other wm...? Curious what people are using, and not being driven insane > with catastrophic bugs, if folks *do * use multiple displays. > > I'm thinking I need to re-explore wm's as kde figures out their > multi-monitor brokenness. As broken as it is, everything else only seems > more so, hopefully others are winning where kde is not. > > -mb > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen