Long story short, I have an nvidia (I hear you groaning already...) and it requires the 304.135, it's a Geforce 7300. As long as I chose the "Recommended" driver I had no problems. But we have problems with Noveau in 18.04.2. I am using the NV46 2.1 Mesa 18.2.8 that installed when I did a fresh 18.04.2 install.
Some updates seemed to have helped but I still have a bad font problem. Fonts on the Launcher, Panels and SysTray have little black or yellow squares instead of the digits. And it's not always the same number/letter that it hides. I tried to reset the fonts, themes, and window decorations back to default, but it all got worse.
The screen tearing is not nearly as bad as the original install, but still happens randomly or lack of redrawing chunks of the screen.
Web pages and office documents/text files do not have an issue with fonts, just Plasma parts. Pictures on some webpages cause horrific stuttering when scrolling in Firefox, including this site. And the other weird thing is, I can log out and come back, and it will be much better that it was from my original 1st boot of the day, but not fixed or gone.
I have tried to install the nvidia driver once and killed my system, I had to reinstall again from disc. I am a pro at killing systems with video drivers.
1. What can I do to get Noveau to function normal? Do I need a different Noveau driver or a tweak at some settings?
2. Is it really possible to install nvidia 304 and not kill my system? It removed parts of Kubuntu last time and it was a mess. Then again I suck at this task more than any other.
Some updates seemed to have helped but I still have a bad font problem. Fonts on the Launcher, Panels and SysTray have little black or yellow squares instead of the digits. And it's not always the same number/letter that it hides. I tried to reset the fonts, themes, and window decorations back to default, but it all got worse.
The screen tearing is not nearly as bad as the original install, but still happens randomly or lack of redrawing chunks of the screen.
Web pages and office documents/text files do not have an issue with fonts, just Plasma parts. Pictures on some webpages cause horrific stuttering when scrolling in Firefox, including this site. And the other weird thing is, I can log out and come back, and it will be much better that it was from my original 1st boot of the day, but not fixed or gone.
I have tried to install the nvidia driver once and killed my system, I had to reinstall again from disc. I am a pro at killing systems with video drivers.
1. What can I do to get Noveau to function normal? Do I need a different Noveau driver or a tweak at some settings?
2. Is it really possible to install nvidia 304 and not kill my system? It removed parts of Kubuntu last time and it was a mess. Then again I suck at this task more than any other.
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