https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368814
--- Comment #4 from Stuart Citrin <ctrn...@gmail.com> --- This bug is consistently reproducible but only when using the proprietary nvidia driver. It does not occur when using the nouveau driver. I have a geforce 210(NV50) card and the recommended proprietary driver for that card is nvidia340xx series. The bug did not occur during plasma/kde 5.8.1 and only appeared after the update to 5.8.2. To rule out the possibility that it might have been an nvidia issue, I rewound the nvidia340xx driver to the version I was using last August (340.96) and it still occurred. (The current nvidia version is 340.98). Note the 340.96 worked fine with 5.7 and 5.8.1. I also tried the current nvdia 370xx version and 304xx. In the past these have worked with that card. But plasma will not instantiate with these versions. (X does start). The message one gets is a popup stating that plasma is unable to start as it could not correctly use OpenGl2(even though the compositor is set to use XRender.) This is probably all just noise, but the information is provided to be complete. Work around is to use the nouveau driver or set the compositer to use XRender which seems to work fine (unless I guess someone is really into 3-D games or something.) glxinfo attached. Generated with it in hosed state, that is with the OpenGl2 backend enabled, proprietary driver, desktop effects not working. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
