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kammao

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Registered: 2022-09-28

Posts: 12

[SOLVED] Applications freezing after installing NVIDIA driver

Hello!

Yesterday I did a fresh install of arch on my PC. When I installed the nvidia driver with 'sudo pacman -S nvidia` I started experiencing a few issues. Applications like rocketchat and spotify started to freeze and the title bar of the apps had a bigger font. Also, all the windows are spawned now at the bottom right edge/upper right edge of the screen now (when you spawn a new terminal for example, with CTRL+ALT+T)

The titlebar was fixed by adding `Xft.dpi` setting in .Xresources:

 Base colors
*.foreground:  #E1E1E1
*.background:  #1C2023
*.cursorColor: #778899

*.color0:  #1C2023
*.color1:  #BF616A
*.color2:  #A3BE8C
*.color3:  #EBCB8B
*.color4:  #8FA1B3
*.color5:  #B48EAD
*.color6:  #96B5B4
*.color7:  #E1E1E1
*.color8:  #919BA0
*.color9:  #BF616A
*.color10: #A3BE8C
*.color11: #EBCB8B
*.color12: #8FA1B3
*.color13: #B48EAD
*.color14: #96B5B4
*.color15: #C0C5CE

! xterm
xterm*termName: xterm-256color
xterm*font: monospace
xterm*faceName: monospace:size=11
xterm*loginShell: true
xterm*vt100*geometry: 90x34
xterm*saveLines: 2000
xterm*charClass: 33:48,35:48,37:48,43:48,45-47:48,64:48,95:48,126:48
xterm*eightBitInput: false
Xcursor.size: 16
Xft.dpi: 100
! These might also be useful depending on your monitor and personal preference:
Xft.autohint: 0
Xft.lcdfilter:  lcddefault
Xft.hintstyle:  hintfull
Xft.hinting: 1
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.rgba: rgb

! URxvt
URxvt*saveline: 15000
URxvt*termName: rxvt-256color
URxvt*iso14755: false
URxvt*depth: 32
URxvt*background: [95]#1C2023
URxvt*scrollBar: false
URxvt*scrollBar_right: false
URxvt*internalBorder: 0
URxvt*externalBorder: 0
URxvt*letterSpace: -1
URxvt.font: xft:monospace:size=11
URxvt.copyCommand: xclip -i -selection clipboard
URxvt.pasteCommand: xclip -o -selection clipboard
URxvt.urlLauncher: exo-open
URxvt.underlineURLs: true
URxvt.urlButton: 1
URxvt.geometry: 90x34
URxvt.tabbed.tabbar-fg: 4
URxvt.tabbed.tabbar-bg: 16
URxvt.tabbed.tab-fg: 15
URxvt.tabbed.tab-bg: 4
URxvt*buffered: false

Another change I did was checking Force Full Composition Pipeline and Force Composition pipeline in `nvidia-setting` to get rid of tearing. This made changes in my `/etc/X11/xorg.conf`:

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 515.76

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

Section "Files"
EndSection

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

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

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "LG Electronics LG HDR 4K"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 135.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 61.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "Stereo" "0"
    Option         "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-5"
    Option         "metamodes" "DP-2: nvidia-auto-select +3840+0 {ForceCompositionPipeline=On, ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On}, DP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0 {ForceCompositionPipeline=On, ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On}"
    Option         "SLI" "Off"
    Option         "MultiGPU" "Off"
    Option         "BaseMosaic" "off"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Also, when starting `nvidia-settings` I get:

(nvidia-settings:4168): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 21:46:23.267: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

But I've read that this is not an issue..

My xorg.log : https://pastebin.com/22C9CyAM

My glxinfo -b output:

name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info):
    Dedicated video memory: 8192 MB
    Total available memory: 8192 MB
    Currently available dedicated video memory: 6408 MB
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 515.76
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 515.76
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: (none)

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 NVIDIA 515.76
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

My lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6th-10th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 07)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family USB 3.0 xHCI Controller
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH CSME HECI #1
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH SATA controller [AHCI mode]
00:1b.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #17 (rev f0)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev f0)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev f0)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f0)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Z370 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family Power Management Controller
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH HD Audio
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family SMBus Controller
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070 Ti] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)

Any idea what could cause this?
Thank you!

Last edited by kammao (2022-10-05 11:27:24)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 56,489

Re: [SOLVED] Applications freezing after installing NVIDIA driver

Cause "what?

rocketchat and spotify started to freeze

Does the audio playback freeze as well or is this a purely visual thing?
Do the clients yell any errors at you? Are the processes in "D" state (waiting for IO)?
It's not likely that installing a driver leads to random clients hang randomly.

the title bar of the apps had a bigger font

Beacuse

[     4.882] (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (162, 161); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config

so the server is now running at 162dpi instead of (likely) 96
Instead of overriding that, you may want to fix the font configuration of clients where you selected too large fonts.

Also, all the windows are spawned now at the bottom right edge/upper right edge of the screen now

That's probably down to your WM config and because the output names will have changed (what is unfortunately "normal", even when changing between the modesetting driver and eg. xf86-video-nouveau)

Another change I did was checking Force Full Composition Pipeline and Force Composition pipeline in `nvidia-setting` to get rid of tearing. This made changes in my `/etc/X11/xorg.conf`:

Delete that file.
Static server configs aren't a good idea.

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti"
    Option    "ForceCompositionPipeline"    "On"
    Option    "ForceFullCompositionPipeline"    "On"
EndSection

should™ do itr.

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kammao

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Registered: 2022-09-28

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] Applications freezing after installing NVIDIA driver

Cause "what?

It just froze. On spotify I was getting a program specific error, therefore I think it is beyond the scope of this post:

strace -eopen spotify
spotify: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by spotify)
/opt/spotify/spotify: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by /opt/spotify/spotify)
/opt/spotify/spotify: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by /opt/spotify/spotify)
/proc/self/exe: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by /proc/self/exe)

On rocketchat, things seem to work now..

One thing I did was remove: xf86-input-evdev,  xf86-input-synaptics,  xf86-input-vmouse,  xf86-input-void, xf86-video-amdgpu,  xf86-video-ati,  xf86-videodummy,  xf86--video-fbdev,  xf86-video-intel,  xf86-video-nouveau,  xf86-video-openchrome,  xf86-video-qxl,  xf86-video-vesa,  xf86-video-vmware,  xf86-video-vodoo. I don't think I had to have any one of those?

Instead of overriding that, you may want to fix the font configuration of clients where you selected too large fonts.

To be honest, I'm not quite sure how to do that. Every single application has a larger title font - and only that part of the apps interfaces is bigger.

That's probably down to your WM config and because the output names will have changed (what is unfortunately "normal", even when changing between the modesetting driver and eg. xf86-video-nouveau)

I'm using openbox. I'll try and figure something out.

Static server configs aren't a good idea.

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti"
    Option    "ForceCompositionPipeline"    "On"
    Option    "ForceFullCompositionPipeline"    "On"
EndSection

should™ do itr.

I assume I need to add this to `/etc/X11/xorg.conf`? According to this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … figuration, it would be ideal to add it to `/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf` but I don't have that folder created. Anyhow, I replaced my xorg.conf with your aforementioned snippet and now I set the config for my 2 monitors from ARandR.

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Regarding the removal of the xf86 packages - I'll add the output of my `pacman -Qqe` just to be sure I didn't mess up anything

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alsa-lib
alsa-plugins
arandr
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archlabs-skel-base
archlabs-skel-openbox
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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 56,489

Re: [SOLVED] Applications freezing after installing NVIDIA driver

it would be ideal to add it to `/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf`

Yes.

but I don't have that folder created

So? Create it and put the file there.

To be honest, I'm not quite sure how to do that

There's gonna be a global config for the toolkits (Qt/gtk) default fonts but next to that for each client individually.
If you've been running a 162dpi output at 96dpi you either have previously configured bigger fonts or have been running w/ toosmall™ fonts all along.
You can force a DPI in 20-nvidia.conf

…
        Option  "DPI"                                   "96x96"
        Option  "UseEdidDpi"                    "False"
…

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kammao

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Registered: 2022-09-28

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] Applications freezing after installing NVIDIA driver

Thank you for the help! The options in 20-nvidia.conf did the trick.

Seems like everything is behaving alright now.

jonno2002

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Registered: 2016-11-21

Posts: 690

Re: [SOLVED] Applications freezing after installing NVIDIA driver

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archlabs-pipemenus
archlabs-scripts
archlabs-skel-base
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