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rivernate

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Registered: 2011-04-08

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Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

Thanks for the link, I'll keep my eye on it.

discon

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Registered: 2010-06-28

Posts: 23

Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

Thanks for the link, I'll keep my eye on it.

I have a 7300 GS with the exact same problems as you. The nvidia driver freezes while the nouveau driver is OK-ish when opening the overview but very slow when dragging windows around or when fading windows in/out. I haven't found a solution yet; please post here if you get it to work.

A_ch

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Registered: 2011-03-27

Posts: 14

Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

A new release ist out: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr … ?p=2421151

"Fixed a bug that caused some GPUs to stop responding when the X Server was started." -> This was so promising but unfortunately gnome-shell still freezes :-(
Did this release solve your issus?

rivernate

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Registered: 2011-04-08

Posts: 10

Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

No no change, but it doesn't appear to be X that is freezing. Gnome 3 still works in fallback mode.  I'm thinking it has something to do with mutter

pendor

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From: Tucumán - Argentina

Registered: 2008-09-24

Posts: 130

Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

Maybe not, Gnome 2+Compiz still freezes (sort of) using Nvidia drivers... I'm still stuck with nouveau... (lots of threads about this problems, really)

rivernate

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Registered: 2011-04-08

Posts: 10

Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

In my case I was using compiz with gnome2 and didn't have any problems, but I have seen the posts of problems with the nvidia drivers.  I guess the best way to go now i intel cards.

beermanhere

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Registered: 2011-05-06

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Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

Any update/fix on this??

Gnome 3 freezes for me after about 2 seconds using nvidia drivers, and is *really* slow using nouveau. I've got a GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS. Without nouveau-dri, I go into fallback mode and that seems to work just fine...

rivernate

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Registered: 2011-04-08

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Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

I haven't seen anything, I'm following this thread as well
nvnews desktop freezing

zexar

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Registered: 2009-05-15

Posts: 23

Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

rivernate, I have exactly same problems with exactly same video card! It seems we should only wait while this bug will fixed.
Except this, sometimes I get error while watching movies with smplayer on nouveau driver. xorg server crushes and system freezes. Have you same problems?

rivernate

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Registered: 2011-04-08

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Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

I haven't seen that problem, but I've only used the nouveau driver to try out gnome shell, I'm currently running the nvidia driver in fall back mode.  so there is a good chance I would see the same thing.

jasonwryan

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Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

Moving to Applications and Desktop Environments

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A_ch

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Registered: 2011-03-27

Posts: 14

Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

rivernate, I have exactly same problems with exactly same video card! It seems we should only wait while this bug will fixed.
Except this, sometimes I get error while watching movies with smplayer on nouveau driver. xorg server crushes and system freezes. Have you same problems?

I do have exactly the same problem when watching videos. This is one of the reasons why I am not using nouveau with gnome-shell, instead I am still using nvidia in fallback mode :-(

ondoheer

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From: Lima

Registered: 2011-03-13

Posts: 16

Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

I do have the same problem, I just installed gnome 3 to give it another try. The link to the nvidia forums is not working, but I found a similar one and it seems the problem persists? If someone has found a solution please post it here!

Thanks a lot.

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king.flasher.dave

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 140

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Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

Does anyone experience the same issues as described here, by me (4th post)?

Gnome-shell turns into a nasty lockup situation (sometimes) when I try to setup an external monitor (nvidia-settings or auto-disper). The problem is quite random, but very annoying as often the only thing I can do is a hard reboot.

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ondoheer

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From: Lima

Registered: 2011-03-13

Posts: 16

Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

Just to say that my problem was solved after some updates, didi't try it until today and now it worked.

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king.flasher.dave

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2008-11-25

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Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

Yeah well, I hope the package gets updated soon in the repo. We're kinda outdated. Nvidia is on 275.33 already.
Maybe it will fix my issues with the monitor switching.

Is there any particular reason why it hasn't been updated besides time issues of the maintainer (speaking dependency-wise, no rant!)?

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Griemak

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Registered: 2011-05-10

Posts: 46

Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

Latest Nvidia driver is 275.09.07 released on 6/14/2011 (the day of this post).  Arch did have the latest Nvidia driver.  At the time of this post, the 270.41.19 driver is flagged out of date and the 275.09.07 should be arriving very shortly.
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort … =&limit=50

The new driver, released just hours ago, has the following highlights:

*Fixed a bug that caused desktop corruption in GNOME 3 after a VT-switch or suspend/resume cycle.

*Added support for the following GPUs:
GeForce GTX 560
GeForce GT 545
GeForce GTX 560M
GeForce 410M
GeForce 320M
GeForce 315M
Quadro 5010M
Quadro 3000M
Quadro 4000M

*Fixed a bug that caused freezes and crashes when resizing windows in KDE 4 with desktop effects enabled using X.Org X server version 1.10 or later.

*Modified the X driver to request that hardware inform the audio driver whenever a display is disabled. This will allow the audio driver to generate the appropriate jack unplug events to applications.

*Added support for the GL_EXT_x11_sync_object extension. See the extension specification in the OpenGL registry here:
http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/EXT/x11_sync_object.txt for more details.

*Improved performance of window resize operations in KDE 4 on systems with slow CPUs.

*Added support for hardware button based pairing to NVIDIA 3D Vision Pro. Single click button on the hub to enter into a pairing mode which pairs one pair of glasses at a time. Double click the same button on the hub to enter into a pairing mode which pairs multiple pairs of glasses at a time.

*Added unofficial GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect rendering) for the following OpenGL extensions:
GL_NV_framebuffer_multisample_coverage
GL_NV_texture_barrier

*Added GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect rendering) for the following OpenGL extension:
GL_NV_register_combiners2

*Fixed a bug that caused the pop-out and external DVI displays to go blank on Lenovo ThinkPad W701 laptops.

*Fixed a bug that caused corruption on the menus in OpenOffice.org when the screen is rotated.

*Improved performance of certain memory allocations.

*Fixed a bug that caused Java2D widgets to disappear when Java is configured to render using FBOs.

*Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-settings to crash while saving the X configuration file on some Linux distributions.

*Added a new X configuration option "BaseMosaic" which can be used to extend a single X screen transparently across all of the available display outputs on each GPU. See "Appendix B. X Config Options" in the README for more information.

More issues being solved, hopefully it helps everyone in this thread.

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king.flasher.dave

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2008-11-25

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Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

Uh, sweeet! The fixes look promising.

And lol: Guess I'm too confused by time atm to read flag dates correctly

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jlight2011

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From: Melbourne

Registered: 2011-06-15

Posts: 51

Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

I have am using the updated driver and face the same trouble. Any body facing the same issue with 275.09.07?

I got an Acer 3270 with Nvidia Gforce Go 7300.

If anyone fixed it please tell me.

Cheers!

gautam.malik

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Registered: 2011-06-22

Posts: 1

Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

I am confirm this -
Gnome shell does not work with
1. Nouveau (black screen and garbled display),
2. NVIDIA-173 (extremely sluggish and hangs),
3. NVIDIA-270 (hangs at launch), and
4. NVIDIA-275 (hangs at launch).

Basically, Gnome-Shell does not run at all on my NVIDIA Geforce Go 7200

I have tested on Fedora and OpenSuse as well.

I really miss Gnome3 :-( and am envy that others can use it and I can't.

mivaho

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Registered: 2011-05-04

Posts: 7

Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

I'll confirm also.

I'm using the 275.09.07 driver with a Nvidia Gforce Go 7400 and still have the issue of a freezing shell at start up.

Nouveau is way to slow to work with so I am using fallback modus.

Hope it gets resolved soon.

samps

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Registered: 2010-09-29

Posts: 1

Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

I'm also still experiencing this with all the latest packages.

Like some of the earlier posters, my graphics card is a GeForce 7300, although this is a desktop board. Can we corroborate that the issue is specific to only some cards? (Maybe I'll just buy a new graphics card...)

ElTimo

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From: Yardley, PA

Registered: 2011-04-06

Posts: 10

Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

I think it has something to do with direct rendering. I was having a similar problem with kde 4.7, but disabling direct rendering fixed everything. Is there any way to disable it in Gnome 3?

bRuNoWsKi

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Registered: 2011-09-09

Posts: 1

Re: [Gnome 3] gnome-shell freezes with Nvidia proprietary driver

Hi,

after hours of installing and testing to get the shell working with actual kernel releases on my nVidia Geforce 7400 Go i wrote a small script which installs a patched nVidia-driver (256.53) and xorg (1.9.0). The script can be found here.

You only have to run the script as root at init runlevel 3. After starting the script it downloads and installs the xserver packages from http://schlunix.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/, removes potentially installed nvidia drivers and finally downloads the nVidia-driver from the nVidia-Homepage. After the downloaded driver got patched the script installs the patched driver. At the end the script adds the downgraded packages to the IgnorePkg-List in /etc/pacman.conf.

This worked for me and i'm happy to use the shell again with all installed and actual packages.

I hope you like the script because it makes the downgrade of nVidia-driver very easy for the actual kernel release.

bis denne

bRuNoWsKi