nvidia + linux

[Stephen Partington]

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.
>
> 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
>
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Stephen
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