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Not sure what changes showed up in the Nouveau driver, but I can now use it to play videos full-screen. And that's just in time to take over from the nVidia "official" driver (INTTF patched version 304.137) which suddenly stopped working with the X.org ABI change...
All good here. (But please don't take this as a criticism against anyone. All good here, and that's good enough for me.)
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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If it works for you, great!
In the past Nvidia has always updated their drivers to meet whatever the challenge and we will probably see new and/or patched drivers released this coming week.
Added support for the following GPUs:
GeForce GTX 1050 with Max-Q Design
Quadro P3200
Quadro P4200 Added support for X.Org xserver ABI 24 (xorg-server 1.20).
Improved nvidia-bug-report.sh to check for kern.log which is the default kernel log-file location for many Debian-based Linux distributions.
Fixed a bug which could cause X servers that export a Video Driver ABI earlier than 0.8 to crash when running X11 applications which call XRenderAddTraps().
Last edited by cwizardone; 05-16-2018 at 10:47 AM.
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IIRC, the 390 series is the last to support 32-bit.
However, the 64-bit drivers will continue to provide 32-bit compatibility libraries for those who need them.
Last edited by cwizardone; 05-16-2018 at 11:20 AM.
I haven't been paying attention. What are the advantages of this Dusk kernel?
From a technical perspective, there isn't any advantage to using the DUSK kernel instead of compiling your own.
From a personal standpoint, however, if the prospect of downloading the kernel sources and compiling is daunting to you, then perhaps it is advantageous to download a precompiled kernel, if the stock Slackware kernel is unsatisfactory.
Really, the choice is up to you.
Last edited by 1337_powerslacker; 05-20-2018 at 10:23 AM.
Reason: Clarified point about compiling
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