Graphical glitches in Firefox under Gnome Shell, Nvidia

Ville · 2014-03-06 05:04:42

Yet again I am amazed that 64bit firefox didnt use opengl by default.

But that solved my problems in daily use.

kjozsa · 2014-03-06 09:10:45

Firefox works with the enabled acceleration but I'm also having the problem in apps like Pidgin. Also, I have a bad(?) habit of running pacman -Scc (removing the cache) after each upgrade, so the question is..

Where could I grab the previous version of the nvidia driver for now?

kjozsa · 2014-03-06 09:34:23

Never mind, I just used the Arch Rollback Machine (http://seblu.net/a/arm/packages/n/) to manually fetch all nvidia packages for version 331.49-1 and it seems to get around the problem. I still hope Clutter gets fixed soon though..

WhiteKnight · 2014-03-06 12:33:03

I have the same problem like you all.

kjozsa wrote:

habit of running pacman -Scc (removing the cache)

Unfortunately, Iike kjozsa, I remove downloaded package files as well. I'm using cacheclean for that, where you can decide how many (most recent) versions of a package you would like to keep.
My bad, that I only kept two version, so the working nvidia drivers where gone.
Because I looked on the old Arch Rollback Machine, which doesn't work anymore, I couldn't download the last working version of the driver.

Now coming to the essence of my post:
I switched to nouveau drivers, which actually seem to work pretty well. Since this is my office computer, I don't need 3D performance for games …
If you don't play games on your machine, I'll encourage you to try to switch to the nouveau drivers, too.

max.bra · 2014-03-06 16:27:32

For those who use clutter as compositor (gnome 3 and friends), this patch solve the problem, or at least seems that.

In case:

1) download this somewhere
2) yaourt -Sb clutter
3) edit PKGBUILD
4) a line under

build() {
  cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"

add

patch -p1 < /path/to/the/file/downloaded/at/step/one

and save
5) continue compilation
6) install e restart x session

bye

Last edited by max.bra (2014-03-06 16:28:20)

Foucault · 2014-03-06 17:32:28

This does not seem to solve the problem. I am using cinnamon (its wm its clutter based) and the problem persists. Any luck with gnome?

max.bra · 2014-03-06 17:57:57

Foucault wrote:

This does not seem to solve the problem. I am using cinnamon (its wm its clutter based) and the problem persists. Any luck with gnome?

Yes, gnome 3 is flicker free with clutter patched

loqs · 2014-03-06 19:47:02

Patch fixes the flickering with the 334.21 nvidia drivers for me using cinnamon but it seems to sometimes miss an update in firefox leaving the entire window with old content. Minimizing / Restoring window forces update.

NikTh · 2014-03-06 19:55:35

I use both cinnamon and gnome-shell and same problem here. Not on Firefox only, but in terminal and various other applications. Glitches all over the place. The latest update I did it today. nvidia 334.21-2 and 3.13.5-1-ARCH x86_64.

The workaround for now is either to rollback to a previous nvidia version (mentioned before) , or use the nouveau. Nouveau by the way, works pretty good !

Last edited by NikTh (2014-03-06 19:56:51)

ToJa92 · 2014-03-06 20:30:50

I just applied the patch, and after a reboot the issue seems to be resolved. Using the latest Nvidia drivers, a Nvidia GTX 560Ti and Cinnamon (with clutter as its compositor, I presume).

blackout23 · 2014-03-06 23:53:23

clutter is not the compositor. For Gnome that's mutter and muffin (mutter fork) on Cinnamon. Both depend on clutter.

dgesh · 2014-03-07 06:28:07

I don't think this is limited to clutter/mutter since I've now noticed glitches in GTK apps under i3 (including, it turns out, Firefox). Nowhere near as bad as when running under Gnome, but still present.

rusty725 · 2014-03-07 06:43:27

why nvidia 334.21 is not pulled from repos ? any solution available as well ?

max.bra · 2014-03-07 07:53:24

rusty725 wrote:

why nvidia 334.21 is not pulled from repos ? any solution available as well ?

because it seems to be not an nvidia problem.
the new release seems to have exposed a bad way some opengl compositors and libraries manages timings in refreshing screens
for example, my wife's compositing enabled xfce desktop has no problem at all

Last edited by max.bra (2014-03-07 07:54:11)

rusty725 · 2014-03-07 08:09:10

max.bra wrote:

rusty725 wrote:
why nvidia 334.21 is not pulled from repos ? any solution available as well ?
because it seems to be not an nvidia problem.
the new release seems to have exposed a bad way some opengl compositors and libraries manages timings in refreshing screens
for example, my wife's compositing enabled xfce desktop has no problem at all

any way to fix it with cinnamon ?

max.bra · 2014-03-07 08:13:03

blackout23 wrote:

clutter is not the compositor. For Gnome that's mutter and muffin (mutter fork) on Cinnamon. Both depend on clutter.

how this post can solve anything?

dgesh wrote:

I don't think this is limited to clutter/mutter since I've now noticed glitches in GTK apps under i3 (including, it turns out, Firefox). Nowhere near as bad as when running under Gnome, but still present.

yes, i3 uses pango that depends on cairo. Same library that use cogl used by clutter. Maybe there's something to trim over there also or in i3 directly.

max.bra · 2014-03-07 08:17:08

rusty725 wrote:

max.bra wrote:
rusty725 wrote:
why nvidia 334.21 is not pulled from repos ? any solution available as well ?
because it seems to be not an nvidia problem.
the new release seems to have exposed a bad way some opengl compositors and libraries manages timings in refreshing screens
for example, my wife's compositing enabled xfce desktop has no problem at all
any way to fix it with cinnamon ?

have you patched clutter?

rusty725 · 2014-03-07 08:21:51

max.bra wrote:

rusty725 wrote:
max.bra wrote:
because it seems to be not an nvidia problem.
the new release seems to have exposed a bad way some opengl compositors and libraries manages timings in refreshing screens
for example, my wife's compositing enabled xfce desktop has no problem at all
any way to fix it with cinnamon ?
have you patched clutter?

I've read this guy's comment and decided not to try it.

Foucault wrote:

This does not seem to solve the problem. I am using cinnamon (its wm its clutter based) and the problem persists. Any luck with gnome?

max.bra · 2014-03-07 08:28:58

rusty725 wrote:

max.bra wrote:
rusty725 wrote:
any way to fix it with cinnamon ?
have you patched clutter?
I've read this guy's comment and decided not to try it.
Foucault wrote:
This does not seem to solve the problem. I am using cinnamon (its wm its clutter based) and the problem persists. Any luck with gnome?

try it, it's a completely fail safe patch
I think it will not be the final solution but it's a good workaround.

dgesh · 2014-03-07 12:36:41

max.bra wrote:

yes, i3 uses pango that depends on cairo. Same library that use cogl used by clutter. Maybe there's something to trim over there also or in i3 directly.

The problems aren't with i3 itself but with gtk apps running under i3. I'm not technically minded enough to know whether this impacts on what you're saying.

Also I'm using Compton, and again I don't know whether that changes things...

So long as this is a known thing now, I'm happy to wait til things are patched. Nothing is unusable.

blackout23 · 2014-03-07 14:27:12

rusty725 wrote:

why nvidia 334.21 is not pulled from repos ? any solution available as well ?

It's not a NVIDIA problem. Install clutter-git from AUR if you don't want to patch yourself. The clutter maintainer could include the patch, since it will be part of future clutter versions anyway. The patch will not have to be maintained forever. I'll shot him an email.

Last edited by blackout23 (2014-03-07 14:38:32)

cju · 2014-03-07 19:30:35

So let me see if I got this right: If I don't have clutter or cogl installed, the nvidia upgrade shouldn't be a problem, right? Or do I get this issues too, simply because I have cairo installed?

tbudikov · 2014-03-07 21:18:04

max.bra wrote:

For those who use clutter as compositor (gnome 3 and friends), this patch solve the problem, or at least seems that.
In case:
1) download this somewhere
2) yaourt -Sb clutter
3) edit PKGBUILD
4) a line under
build() {
  cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
add
patch -p1 < /path/to/the/file/downloaded/at/step/one
and save
5) continue compilation
6) install e restart x session
bye

Nice! works greats with gnome-shell. no more glitch or flickering with firefox, terminal etc .... thank you

floxo · 2014-03-08 13:17:36

I had exactly the same problem, then changed from nvidia to nouveau and now everything is fine.

Last edited by floxo (2014-03-08 13:17:54)

mdoff · 2014-03-09 21:01:15

New update was published nvidia-full-beta-all 334.21-2 and after I installed it, problem was gone

Last edited by mdoff (2014-03-09 21:01:49)

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