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|    Carlos E.R. to bad sector    |
|    Re: Nvidia driver?    |
|    21 Nov 17 04:52:51    |
      From: robin_listas@es.invalid              On 2017-11-21 03:08, bad sector wrote:       > On 11/20/2017 05:28 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:       >> On 2017-11-20 22:50, bad sector wrote:                                   >>> Backed my way out of it via a curses Yast uninstall.       >>>       >>> At this moment Tumbleweed on Amd64 8-core, 16gb, GeForce-640       >>       >> Ah, nvidia and TW do not play well. The SDB procedure is intended for       >> Leap.       >       > I don't NEED nVidia at all, all I do need is       > for some way to make Googleearth-5.2 usable.              Ie, you do need nvidia. LOL! What do you think it is for?                     >> Originally for TW you should use "the hard way". This may have improved,       >> I heard, but I do not keep current with it. I do not use TW in       >> production machines.       >       > That's what I 'used' to use i.e. the nVidia installer *.run files              Yes, but things have improved. I can not explain because I don't use TW.                     >>> Also, the same page begins with a WARNING:       >>> "It is not recommended to use the '1-Click Install' from the "openSUSE       >>> Community" page as this requires information of which GPU is used."       >>       >> That's another method which you did not use.       >>       >>>       >>> What's he problem with 'information of which GPU is used'?       >>       >> Well, the one click procedure does not know what GPU and thus what       >> driver variant you need.       >       > Then maybe THAT's what the warning should say              It does say it. In a different wording.              --       Cheers, Carlos.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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