On 10/08/2016 05:06 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Sat, 8 Oct 2016 09:59:27 -0700 Eric <eri...@cox.net> said: > >> On 10/08/2016 02:33 AM, Simon Lees wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 10/08/2016 06:25 PM, Eric wrote: >> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Thank you Simon, >>>> >>>> I was able to get it working using the repository. I did find out that >>>> the problem was with the new NVIDIA driver that I have to choose >>>> software rendering instead of OpenGL. With OpenGL I just get the mouse >>>> cursor icon displaying with nothing else. Using software rendering >>>> makes my desktop a little sluggish on this machine. >>>> >>>> I am going to see if I can role back the NVIDIA update somehow. My >>>> google search has not led me with the right info on how to do that yet >>>> on openSUSE. >>>> >>>> Eric Meddleton >>>> >>> >>> Updates should remain available, so if you go to yast search for NVIDIA >>> in the software manager, there should be a version tab that you can use >>> to roll back. >>> >>> >> >> Unfortunately, the previous version for NVIDIA is not available in yast, >> just the version I have installed and the i586 version. (But that is >> getting into openSUSE territory and not really applicable to e-users >> discussion.) >> >> Now that I remember, I had a similar situation on a different machine >> with Arch linux a year or so ago. That machine had a NVIDIA GeForce >> GTX570 card. I have just lived with the software rendering on that >> machine without any noticeable difference maybe due to it having an >> intel i7 processor. No updates on NVIDIA or enlightenment and the ELF >> libraries has helped since then and the downgrade would have meant >> also downgrading the kernel so I just let it go. It may just need to be >> re-installed to get it all sorted out and I just have not wanted to try >> that yet. :-) >> >> The machine in question now only has an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core >> Processor 5600+ and is getting a little old. I will try updating >> openSUSE to the next version to see how that goes. >> >> Thank you very much for your help. > > hmmm i wonder if it's the shader cache? try > > rm -rf ~/.cache/evas* > > That did not work.
I tried on another partition an install of openSUSE 42.1 with enlightenment 19.3. It tells me that my GPU does not support OpenGL 2.0 when I select hardware rendering. I wonder if the last NVIDIA update rendered my graphic card obsolete when it comes to hardware acceleration. Thank you for your help. Eric Meddleton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
