On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 9:37 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I am using the nvidia-drivers since years and the switch back and > forth from and to the text console does well for years too. >
Ok, I can't be of too much help since the only device I have with nvidia hardware doesn't have a keyboard so I don't switch consoles often. :) It is possible somebody else will chime in with suggestions or similar experiences. However, the official upstream source of support would be nvidia themselves - you might consider asking on their forums/etc to see if anybody using their linux drivers have had similar issues. You could try using the nouveau drivers if switching consoles is more important to you than 3D performance - I will say that it will almost certainly have much worse performance. I do run nvidia-drivers on my ITX mythtv front-end for just that reason - I don't think VDPAU works with nouveau on that hardware, and it is essential for 1080p performance with the dinky atom processor. On most of my desktops I run Radeons and for linux I use the mainline drivers with KMS - it has been rock solid. But, by all means see if somebody chimes in, or try the forums or pinging the maintainer of the drivers (currently jer). To some extent you're all at the mercy of Nvidia. Oh, and one other thing to try is a different kernel version. I don't know the latest details, but as I recall Nvidia tends to only officially support certain kernel series. Their drivers might happen to build for a different kernel series, but perhaps it gets less QA in those situations. You might find that switching to a different longterm might help. I'm running 3.18 on my only nvidia hardware. -- Rich
