On lundi 12 février 2018 00:03:55 CET Robert Krawitz wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:49:22 +0100, David Vincent-Jones wrote: > > I am running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and have avoided trying to install > > OpenCL based on some past poor and frustrating experience. I do have an > > i7 processor and darktable runs (in my opinion) fairly well as it is. I > > would however like some guidance from anybody who is running the same > > distribution. > > > > The Tumbleweed distribution gets updated so very often that I am > > reluctant to have to play with the co-processor setup every day or two. > > I'm using openSUSE Leap 42.3. I'm aware it's not the same as > Tumbleweed, but I think most of the key bits are the same. nVidia > (I'm assuming that that's the GPU you have) support in openSUSE is > weak, but after a lot of poking around I figured out how to put all > the pieces together. I'll send you my (draft) HOWTO under separate > cover.
OpensSUSe Leap 42.3 here as well. In my experience, with YAST2 the only complication is that you have to activate a special repository for the NVidia drivers (the closed source ones, that is), for the rest darktable with OpenCL just works. (see: https:// en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers ). Any update requiring new driver versions gets taken care of automatically (usually...). Unfortunately, since Suse remade its main web page, that kind of information got harder to find. If you download the drivers outside the repository system, you indeed have more work, as it becomes your responability to keep the driver synced with kernel updates and such. But, if you install Tumbleweed, you want to stay with the latest versions for all parts of the system. That also implies you have more chances something breaks during an update... I decided to use Leap, and just look for extra repositories for the few programs where I want to use the latest versions (actually only Darktable and some other photography-related programs). Remco ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
