nVidia drivers - an observation

[Paul Wilson]

Thanks for the update,  maybe for the same reason I had to switch to gnome
for my mythtv frontend,  the 660 is still a bit pricey,  any idea what the
best bang for your buck to upgrade vga card?

Paul
On 24/08/2015 1:08 PM, "Ed Greshko" <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:

> Around F19 or F20 my old nVidia card died.  I replaced it with a GeForce
> GTX 660 but did bother (think) to update the nVidia driver so I've been
> running the 304xx drivers along with my GeForce GTX 660 card just fine with
> KDE as my desktop.
>
> F22 came along which brought Plasma-5 to KDE.  I started to have problems
> that I attributed to Plasma-5.  After some time artifacts would appear in
> systray and popup areas of the systray when the mouse hovered over a
> process.  Also at least once a day I'd lose everything on the systray and
> have to restart plasma.
>
> This past Saturday I decided to move to the 340xx drivers, yes I know I
> really should have moved to 352 now, since that is what my faulty memory
> told me to do.
>
> Anyway, the artifacts haven't reappeared and the systray hasn't crashed in
> the past 2 days.  Additionally another problem seems to no longer exist.
> Previously when I closed the chrome browser several chrome process would be
> left running.  With the "new" drivers this is not the case.
>
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