Comments on: OpenSUSE 11.1 and nVidia == AWESOME!!

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:16:13 +0000

I had all sorts of problems as well. I solved mine by adding the following parameters to the boot command line:

pci=routeirq (needed in my case because of a conflict with a TV Card and the Graphics Card)

vmalloc=192M

By: Mark Fugate

Mark Fugate — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:57:17 +0000

I am having all sorts of problems with Nvidia on OpeSuSE 11.1. I use four monitors and this works well in 11.0 but fails miserably in 11.1. I used absolute positions in 11.0 and the best I can do in 11.1 is two monitors in TwinView and the third and fourth screens are broken in many different ways the worst being core dumps during start up.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

By: Boycott Novell » Do-No-Evil Saturday - Part I: OpenSUSE 11.1 Reviews Trickle In

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:24:58 +0000

[...] Moving Parts: OpenSUSE 11.1 and nVidia == AWESOME!! And, of course, KDE 4.2 is continuing to to shape up and look, feel, and perform absolutely [...]

By: riffo

riffo — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:28:21 +0000

I had
AddARGBGLXVisuals
and
BackingStore
in xorg.conf and had lots of crashes in 11.1.
I removed them both and everything is sweet now.

I guess backingstore was the problem since Michael had the same problem with backingstore…

By: James Ots

James Ots — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:19:38 +0000

After reading your post, I moved my xorg.conf out of the way and let SaX2 recreate it for me. Then I added back in some options, and now I’m amazed at how well my laptop is handling KDE 4.1′s desktop effects. In OpenSuse 11.0 I tried them a few times (with the 4.1 packages), and always ended up turning them off because they were too slow to use. But now they actually work fast – it’s like having a new laptop! (My laptop is nearly six years old, so I really wasn’t expecting my old GeForce2Go to be able to work like this!)

By: Dimitris

Dimitris — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:43:55 +0000

Awesome with latest drivers only.
Did you ask about the performance of “legacy” drivers as well?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:29:08 +0000

I believe the culprit is: “AllowSHMPixmaps” “False”

I’d comment that one out.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:49:58 +0000

Hi,

after my update I ran into two things: On my laptop with intel grafix I had to disable backingstore. It worked until I opened a konsole window. Xterm was fine but konsole always killed X. On my nvidia (180.16) desktop pc i had the same problem but I do not exactly know if it was the backingstore setting.
The second thing I had on my desktop pc was that some font had to be moved into x11-fonts from x11-fonts-core. All gtk apps crashed until I installed xorg-x11-fonts (additionally to xorg-x11-fonts-core)

By: Rafa

Rafa — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:04:37 +0000

Would you mind posting that lovely xorg.conf generated by sax2?

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:44:12 +0000

Just installed Slackware and everything is working out of the box, because there is no unstable things included. Or I boot OS-X, can work after right after booting and don’t need to hope if I have a working laptop when it’s christmas.
Spend some time with your family and not with beta…