Certain apps are visual noise after upgrade

wpkzz · 2023-12-15 03:25:10

I did a full system upgrade a few day ago. After the upgrade, certain applications appear entirely or partially as visual gaussian noise.
Notably, chromium appears as pure noise inside its window. Not even active, just static.
Telegram-desktop, if one clicks a picture to view it fullscreen, also becomes noise, and it freezes.
I have just discovered that zoom also appears as noise in its starting screen (no way to check further, is irresponsive).

chromium, when called as

chromium --disable-gpu

appears normal. The other programs have no such option.
I guess it has to do with the nouveau module of the kernel.
I have a laptop with an hybrid Nvidia-Intel gpu, a gforce 635M.

It is not the first time that it has given me problems.

seth · 2023-12-15 08:27:21

Please post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

wpkzz · 2023-12-23 03:17:43

Okey, let me get back to you on that, sorry for the slow responese.
Here is Xorg log before starting one of the offending applications:
https://termbin.com/o8an
and here is after starting chromium
https://termbin.com/hhgl2
and here is after using telegram and trying to click a picture
... okey forget the last one. Now it is working.

seth · 2023-12-23 08:05:25

Hybrid graphics, xf86-video-intel and modesetting on top of nouveau (for prime)
Remove the xf86-video-intel package and indoubt add "initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init" to the https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_parameters to get rid of the simpledrm device (though the immediate problem is xf86-video-intel)

wpkzz · 2024-01-18 23:00:28

Okey, I did the first step (removing the package) and both Telegram and Chromium seemed to work. But in order to be thorough, i did the second step (passing the option in GRUB to the kernel), and now GRUB doesn't start. There is a very fast error message about some file not found, but I cannot read it, it starts with something

/grub/

and ends with

.gmo

but I cannot read it, it is to fast, and then I am send to the BIOS.

I did manage with an external bootable GNU/Linux usb medium to replace grub.cfg with an old grub.cfg~ from 2019 and it started, but of course many custom settings are lost.

Last edited by wpkzz (2024-01-18 23:43:53)

V1del · 2024-01-19 00:47:05

Your GRUB payload is old. You need to "grub-install" an actually current GRUB version and then regenerate your config.

wpkzz · 2024-01-22 16:50:21

How old is old?
Okey, i discovered another thing:
I cannot longer regulate the brightness of the screen. I get this message:

$ xbacklight -set 20
No outputs have backlight property

And that was not the case before.

seth · 2024-01-22 21:13:16

int isOld() { return age() > seth()->age(); }

but in your case, https://archlinux.org/news/grub-bootloa … ibilities/ would be the most relevant date.

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … backlight/ will only work w/ xf86-video-intel, use https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/acpilight/ instead.

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#1 2023-12-15 03:25:10

Certain apps are visual noise after upgrade

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