I’m using tumbleweed and getting my NVIDIA card to work was some effort but only because I was an idiot and didn’t run the SUSE update tool that would have fixed everything for me :-/
I started on suse in 2003, with nvidia. No problems had. Suse made things easy long before ubuntu came along pretending it was the first to make Linux easy.
Me no use Mint, but the only problem I get is the sleep bug (waking from sleep results in a black screen). I’ve looked into it a few times and all I can assume is it’s probably nvidia so I gave up on solution hunting and pray one day it’s fixed (it’s getting slightly better over the years or maybe thats a placebo idk, it seems to fully break quite rarely now).
After my pc sleeps I usually have to switch sessions with ctrl+alt+<fn key> then back to the one running KDE and it (nvidia?) revives itself and I can keep working on watching my movies.
Just sharing my experience because mby someone smart here is thinking “yo yur dumb just do this”, but honest it’s not a big deal for me anymore.
Oh wait I wanna add that apart from this (tiny in my opinion) bug, everything esle has been smooth, even some gaming (it’s possible im in a rare state to be getting this bug since I haven’t reinstalled my root partition in like 5+ years, even tho I have swapped distros a couple times).
Possibly not a “solution” (or workaround rather) you want, but… I just switch all that stuff off.
The cool thing about Linux and FOSS is “many eyes make all bugs shallow”, and so if you search for the issue, someone else may have already reported it, in the community, or even in the issue tracker, and if not, you can do that, to help others, and then the developers (which can be anyone, even you, btw) can have a better handle on how to mend it.
Every problem, an opportunity, to give back. That’s how we got here, in these 4 decades since Richard Stallman announced the start of the GNU project.
This is over many years so memory might be bad, but I never had this on my old rx 580, then started getting it sometime after swapping to an nvidia gpu. Guess it was just coincidence, if I’m remembering it right anyways. That always fueled my suspicion it was nvidia.
Thanks for sharing your experience, it’s eye opening. I guess I have no problems specific to nvidia then (pre and post open source driver).
p.s. if you have ever looked into this, do you have something you blame?
I poked around the Net a bit here and there, tried a couple different solutions people suggested, but the only thing I managed to change was that the moment I clicked “Sleep”, the image on my monitors would completely freeze (as in: screens on, desktop and applications on full display), and the only solution was to do a hard reboot.
So, basically, I just stopped clicking “Sleep”… :D
Just be forewarned:
Nvidia requires a bit of work.
SeLinux….it is a giant bag of gotcha.
That all said I’m not regretting my conversion.
I’m using tumbleweed and getting my NVIDIA card to work was some effort but only because I was an idiot and didn’t run the SUSE update tool that would have fixed everything for me :-/
:)
Nostalgic for me.
I started on suse in 2003, with nvidia. No problems had. Suse made things easy long before ubuntu came along pretending it was the first to make Linux easy.
OpenSUSE always seemed underrated IMO, especially in those pre-Ubuntu days. Such a polished UX overall
I use Linux Mint and Nvidea and never had any problem what so ever with it. But maybe i just have been lucky.
I use Linux Mint and Nvidea and never had any problem what so ever with it. But maybe i just have been lucky.
I use Linux Mint and Nvidea and never had any problem what so ever with it. But maybe i just have been lucky.
Me no use Mint, but the only problem I get is the sleep bug (waking from sleep results in a black screen). I’ve looked into it a few times and all I can assume is it’s probably nvidia so I gave up on solution hunting and pray one day it’s fixed (it’s getting slightly better over the years or maybe thats a placebo idk, it seems to fully break quite rarely now).
After my pc sleeps I usually have to switch sessions with ctrl+alt+<fn key> then back to the one running KDE and it (nvidia?) revives itself and I can keep working on watching my movies.
Just sharing my experience because mby someone smart here is thinking “yo yur dumb just do this”, but honest it’s not a big deal for me anymore.
Oh wait I wanna add that apart from this (tiny in my opinion) bug, everything esle has been smooth, even some gaming (it’s possible im in a rare state to be getting this bug since I haven’t reinstalled my root partition in like 5+ years, even tho I have swapped distros a couple times).
Possibly not a “solution” (or workaround rather) you want, but… I just switch all that stuff off.
The cool thing about Linux and FOSS is “many eyes make all bugs shallow”, and so if you search for the issue, someone else may have already reported it, in the community, or even in the issue tracker, and if not, you can do that, to help others, and then the developers (which can be anyone, even you, btw) can have a better handle on how to mend it.
Every problem, an opportunity, to give back. That’s how we got here, in these 4 decades since Richard Stallman announced the start of the GNU project.
It’s not, I have something very similar and I have a Radeon.
Oh interesting, I guess a general bug then.
This is over many years so memory might be bad, but I never had this on my old rx 580, then started getting it sometime after swapping to an nvidia gpu. Guess it was just coincidence, if I’m remembering it right anyways. That always fueled my suspicion it was nvidia.
Thanks for sharing your experience, it’s eye opening. I guess I have no problems specific to nvidia then (pre and post open source driver).
p.s. if you have ever looked into this, do you have something you blame?
I poked around the Net a bit here and there, tried a couple different solutions people suggested, but the only thing I managed to change was that the moment I clicked “Sleep”, the image on my monitors would completely freeze (as in: screens on, desktop and applications on full display), and the only solution was to do a hard reboot.
So, basically, I just stopped clicking “Sleep”… :D
Probably not even mint-specific since it happens on pop os too
I had that on Kubuntu, Tuxedo OS and now I have it on Garuda Linux, so yeah.