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Re: plasma not starting



On יום שבת, 22 באוקטובר 2016 18:51:45 IDT Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2016-10-22 11:30 -0400, Christopher Judd wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >      I'm running testing amd64.  After upgrading about a week ago, plasma
> >      will
> > 
> > not start, I get the error message "Plasma is unable to start as it could
> > not use OpenGL2", or something similar.  I have an nvidia card with the
> > nvidia- legacy-304xx driver installed.  LXDE runs fine.  Does anyone know
> > what the issue is here, or how I can debug this?  Please cc me, as I'm
> > not currently subscribed to the list.  Thanks.
> 
> Apparently OpenGL is broken in the 304.132 Nvidia drivers[1,2].
> 
> Cheers,
>        Sven
> 
> 
> 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840342
> 2. https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/968892/

1. Do not start compositing on plasma start.  Edit ./config/kwinrc to make sure 
of this, restart plasmashell. Will run at least.
2. Downgrade the legacy-304xx stuff the Jessie-backports. These apparently do 
work!


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