On 11/09/2018 02:57 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 02:19:00PM -0500, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote:
Ken: Installation include browser 'falkon', I found it quite
operational, could you confirm it is better now.
Apart from not opening a link which turned out to be a PDF (already
noted), I have not seen any recent problems.
The only weakness, seems to be, certificates, while falkon
is able to handle them nicely, I was not able to find a
way to manage/display certificate contents.
Caution: On a GeForce GT 710, falkon crash as soon
trying to display an URL, It was needed to implement the
last proprietary Nvidia driver (standard "Nvidia-....run" procedure).
For other (more recent nvidia card) falkon is working fine.
I refuse to touch nvidia drivers, and after my experience with
nouveau on a GT710 (worked fine if Xorg not used, e.g. for a server,
disastrous for crashing if Xorg in use) and from reading reports
about the problems of using current nvidia cards with nouveau, I
will not again use nvidia cards on a desktop machine.
My experience is quite different. I have been using
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210]
for several years on my development system using the nouveau driver with
absolutely no problems. On the other hand, I tried a Radeon RX460 in
the same system and could not get it to work satisfactorily without an
initrd to load firmware. That creates for me extra work for every new
kernel.
Not so recently I also experimented with the proprietary Nvidia driver,
but I don't like it because of it's requirement to rebuild the kernel
with every update.
-- Bruce
P.S. My workstation has Intel HD Graphics 530 on my i5-6500 and that
runs quite nicely.
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