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!