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everydaydiesel

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Registered: 2015-10-27

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Screen scrolling/rolling with arch repo nvidia driver

I am not really sure how to describe this so I made a short video clip with my phone.

http://vid1056.photobucket.com/albums/t … e4ua9s.mp4

The video above was made with pacman -S nvidia drivers (all default options) 

I am able to download the nvidia drivers from their website and use their installer and it works but this causes me headaches anytime pacman makes some updates.

The card is a nvidia gtx980 running on a 4k monitor/tv

I did run nvidia-xconfig

When I run nvidia-settings it tells me:  "ERROR: The control display is undefined; please run 'nvidia-settings -- help' for usage information"

I took the horizontalsync and verticle sync settings from nvidia-xconfig --query-gpu-info and put the values in /etc/X11xorg.confirm along with adding modes "3840x2160" under the screen section

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Last edited by everydaydiesel (2016-01-04 05:30:40)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,261

Re: Screen scrolling/rolling with arch repo nvidia driver

Can't look at the video here, but I assume you are getting screen tearing, did you install nvidia-libgl as well? as noted in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Installing

pacman -S nvidia-libgl

everydaydiesel

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Registered: 2015-10-27

Posts: 41

Re: Screen scrolling/rolling with arch repo nvidia driver

Thanks for the reply.

I did install nvidia-libgl but same effect

tom.ty89

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Registered: 2012-11-15

Posts: 897

Re: Screen scrolling/rolling with arch repo nvidia driver

You should not need nvidia-xconfig or the xorg conf generated by it. Maybe you should paste your xorg log without the xorg conf in use.

everydaydiesel

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Registered: 2015-10-27

Posts: 41

Re: Screen scrolling/rolling with arch repo nvidia driver

I couldnt stand it anylonger so I used the nvidia installer to install the drivers.

Here is the file that nvidia generated (This is the working config)

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 358.16  (buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-12)  Mon Nov 16 19:59:11 PST 2015


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/mouse"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 136.0
    VertRefresh     58.0 - 62.0                                                                                                                 
    Option         "DPMS"                                                                                                                       
EndSection                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                
Section "Device"                                                                                                                                
    Identifier     "Device0"                                                                                                                    
    Driver         "nvidia"                                                                                                                     
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"                                                                                                         
EndSection                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                
Section "Screen"                                                                                                                                
    Identifier     "Screen0"                                                                                                                    
    Device         "Device0"                                                                                                                    
    Monitor        "Monitor0"                                                                                                                   
    DefaultDepth    24                                                                                                                          
    SubSection     "Display"                                                                                                                    
        Depth       24                                                                                                                          
        Modes      "3840x2160"                                                                                                                  
    EndSubSection
EndSection

I will uninstall and then reinstall arch/repo's version soon

Last edited by everydaydiesel (2016-01-05 17:32:04)

everydaydiesel

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Registered: 2015-10-27

Posts: 41

Re: Screen scrolling/rolling with arch repo nvidia driver

Well I had to format and I am back to square one.  Any ideas on this one?  Any help is greatly appreciated

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Re: Screen scrolling/rolling with arch repo nvidia driver

Not an Installation issue, moving to "Kernel & Hardware".

nstgc

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Re: Screen scrolling/rolling with arch repo nvidia driver

Can't look at the video here, but I assume you are getting screen tearing, did you install nvidia-libgl as well? as noted in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Installing

pacman -S nvidia-libgl

It's not tearing. It really is a unique looking error.

everydaydiesel

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Registered: 2015-10-27

Posts: 41

Re: Screen scrolling/rolling with arch repo nvidia driver

Any ideas on a fix?  I am really desperate here.  Monitor is a 4k and the video card is a gtx 980 (desktop)

If I update my current xorg with the file above (a known working one in the past)  then I just get a blank screen with a flashing cursor

Last edited by everydaydiesel (2016-02-11 17:10:05)