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#1 2011-04-09 19:20:05

wonder
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gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

Hi guys,

try this packages from http://pkgbuild.com/~ioni/nvidia/ and let me know how they work. You need to install both mutter and gnome-shell packages.

it should fix the slowdown for nvidia users


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#2 2011-04-09 20:26:30

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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

Well... it's surelly working for catalyst :-)

I got radeon hd4850 and catalyst-test package (it's ubuntu 11.4 pre fglrx repacked) working on xserver 1.10.
There were no slowdowns here, but whole desktop get garbled when i was launching some kde apps, like amarok.
Now it's fine big_smile

Thanks.

I only need to figure out how to remove this green colour (which strangely appear in 3.0 version, it wasn't there last time i checked [gnome-unstable] a week ago) out from main panel and GNOME 3 will look, feel, and work well.

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#3 2011-04-09 20:26:55

ajschwartz
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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

Woohoo! smile

Thanks guys! Things run much more smoothly now.

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#4 2011-04-09 20:54:12

jolinfire
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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

Which slowdown ? Black lines sometimes when using firefox ? Will wait until you put it in testing and see big_smile

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#5 2011-04-09 20:59:41

aqtrans
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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

smile I can actually notice the animation when triggering the Expose view now, awesome.

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#6 2011-04-09 21:26:06

fana-m
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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

Hey, thanks a lot for the fix!!!

Desktop itself is more responsive.
Systray is finaly working.

Edit:
Ok, i've encountered a strange behavior...
When i have 3 desktops [1] empathy [2] firefox [3] empty.
now when i close firefox and switch to [1] using the right-side desktop-browser the mouse-clicks arent recognized anymore...
ALT+F2 helps or leaving FF open ^^... but its a bit disturbing...

Edit2:
Went afk for some minutes, same behavior mouse-clicks arent recognized...

Last edited by fana-m (2011-04-09 21:52:17)

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#7 2011-04-09 21:37:38

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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

The green color? The green background? Right click your name, click on the system settings link, click on background. Change color there with color or wallpaper.


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#8 2011-04-09 22:10:52

techmagyor
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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

what exactly did you do? i'll give a try right now...

ok, i gave a try. NICE JOB... smile

Could you add more details? anyway, thanks for the contribuiton!!!

Third edit: as usual i open lots of windows, like netbeans, skype and many more. With standard package i have lag, in compare with your package i have no lag but after few minutes (even with reboots and relogins) i can use the expose-like feature but i cannot use the window that i chooes: for example, if i'm with windows expose and i choose whatever window (like skype or netbeans) i couldn't close, resize, minimize and even i can't 'enter' in the window and us its functions (if i choose netbeans the left/right mouse click has no effect in all the menus and subwindows)...do you need some log from here? only gnome-terminal seems that is not affected...

4th edit: It seems happen only after some tries when i change desktop and open a new windows and then get back to the previous desktop and try to reuse an opened program. To solve this just change again the desktop without use any windows and then getback and everything works. As i said before i don't know where to catch this on logs or by gdb.

Last edited by techmagyor (2011-04-10 00:50:45)

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#9 2011-04-10 00:30:04

Vi0L0
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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

mythus wrote:

The green color? The green background? Right click your name, click on the system settings link, click on background. Change color there with color or wallpaper.

Ah, i should be more precise - it really is a bug, not a feature, it's more 'atifact' alike.
But thanks.

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#10 2011-04-10 03:14:00

jxy
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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

Impressive.  It is much smoother with this two packages.

However, it doesn't solve the problem of corrupted rendering after resume from suspend.

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#11 2011-04-10 03:21:40

jxy
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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

techmagyor wrote:

what exactly did you do? i'll give a try right now...

ok, i gave a try. NICE JOB... smile

Could you add more details? anyway, thanks for the contribuiton!!!

Third edit: as usual i open lots of windows, like netbeans, skype and many more. With standard package i have lag, in compare with your package i have no lag but after few minutes (even with reboots and relogins) i can use the expose-like feature but i cannot use the window that i chooes: for example, if i'm with windows expose and i choose whatever window (like skype or netbeans) i couldn't close, resize, minimize and even i can't 'enter' in the window and us its functions (if i choose netbeans the left/right mouse click has no effect in all the menus and subwindows)...do you need some log from here? only gnome-terminal seems that is not affected...

4th edit: It seems happen only after some tries when i change desktop and open a new windows and then get back to the previous desktop and try to reuse an opened program. To solve this just change again the desktop without use any windows and then getback and everything works. As i said before i don't know where to catch this on logs or by gdb.

I'm experiencing the same thing.  Not sure how to reproduce this.

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#12 2011-04-10 03:52:57

ajschwartz
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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

jxy wrote:

However, it doesn't solve the problem of corrupted rendering after resume from suspend.

I'm experiencing it too...got a green screen, a black screen, a white flickering screen - and had to reboot.

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#13 2011-04-10 04:55:11

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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

the 64 bit packages worked fantastic for me (560ti, gnome-shell)

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#14 2011-04-10 07:34:33

wonder
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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

@techmagyor more details are on Changelog file.

related to the mouse losing clicks, i already submitted by details to that bug report. Check it out and report any regressions from the vanilla one to this. (performance increase is not a regression tongue )


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#15 2011-04-10 16:19:22

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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

I've got a dramatic increase in responsiveness, HP DV7 3085DX here (core i7 @ 1.6GHz + GT230M). Thanks!

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#16 2011-04-10 18:12:46

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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

Oddly these packages  (gnome-shell & mutter) did absoutly NOTHING as far as the "lockup/freezing/no mouse click" issue for me.
Old Nvidia GeforceGo 7400 (prolly most of the issue) 
Works well under nouveau (gallium) .

Just a FYI post.

Last edited by jwbirdsong (2011-04-10 18:15:03)


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#17 2011-04-11 11:44:27

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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

jwbirdsong wrote:

Oddly these packages  (gnome-shell & mutter) did absoutly NOTHING as far as the "lockup/freezing/no mouse click" issue for me.

I've only got the "no mouse click" issue when using these packages. With the ones from the Testing Repo I don't have the issue, though gnome-shell isn't as smooth as with the packages provided in this thread.

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#18 2011-04-11 19:01:10

adrianx
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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

Wow, so this is how gnome-shell/mutter should behave! Thanks a lot, wonder, it worked wonders. smile

Edit: (This is my card)
nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)

Edit 2: I am also experiencing the mouse issue. sad

As a workaround, I kill gnome-shell, it respawns and I have full use of the mouse again.

$ pkill gnome-shell

Last edited by adrianx (2011-04-11 21:27:51)

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#19 2011-04-11 23:32:18

TrevorNT
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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

The packages perfectly fixed the graphical slowdown.  Thank you very much for posting them smile .

Out of curiosity, what's the difference between these packages and the default ones in [testing]?

TrevorNT

EDIT: for the record (as a few others have posted this information), my computer uses an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 3100m.  It's an IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T410.

Last edited by TrevorNT (2011-04-11 23:34:31)

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#20 2011-04-11 23:46:34

wonder
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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

@TrevorNT there is a little file called Changelog in that location big_smile


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#21 2011-04-12 08:58:34

wonder
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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

nvidia fixed the driver in 270.41.03 and upstream closed the bug as notagnome, which means that the patches won't be committed. I'm deleting my packages and suggest to use the packages from testing


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#22 2011-04-12 15:50:16

jxy
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Re: gnome-shell/mutter fix for nvidia users

With the new nvidia driver 270.41.03, the animation is much smoother now.  However, waking up from suspension still destroys the screen, and leave the workspace unusable.  I couldn't find the exact bug report about this, anyone give me a link?

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