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hi guys,
Ive recently been having some problems with my graphics, its been happening for a couple of weeks now i think, maybe when the xorg-server got updated?
Im running xfce with composite enabled, and when i click on the xfce menu or un-minimize a window like firefox for example my graphics become garbled for maybe a fraction of a second.
Kind of like in this picture i found http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t97/ … pshot2.png
I thought my graphics card was on its way out, but i booted into another arch version which i havnt updated in about a month or something, and everything seems fine.
It also seems to stop if i disable compositing.
Any idea why this might be happening?
Ive got the nvidia-drivers installed, and havnt changed any settings since. I think it just started happening after i did a pacman -Syu a couple of weeks ago.
Thanks
Kane
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Ive got the nvidia-drivers installed
what version? I thought this problem was with the nvidia 169.07 drivers and not xorg. every now and then my xchat and few other programs have garbled graphics for maybe a 1/10 of a second before they come back and my card is brand new so I know its not hardware releated.
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erm .... when i open nvidia settings it says driver version: 100.14.19
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pacman -Qi nvidia
pacman -Qi xorg-serverPlease post the output of those two commands. Here is mine.
$ pacman -Qi nvidia
Name : nvidia
Version : 169.09-2
URL : http://www.nvidia.com/
Licenses : custom
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : kernel26>=2.6.24-2 kernel26<=2.6.25-0 nvidia-utils
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Conflicts With : nvidia-96xx nvidia-71xx nvidia-legacy
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 10907.35 K
Packager : Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
Architecture : x86_64
Build Date : Sat 26 Jan 2008 09:34:30 AM EST
Install Date : Sat 26 Jan 2008 11:57:14 PM EST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Description : NVIDIA drivers for kernel26.
$ pacman -Qi xorg-server
Name : xorg-server
Version : 1.4.0.90-6
URL : http://xorg.freedesktop.org
Licenses : custom
Groups : xorg
Provides : x-server
Depends On : libxkbui ncurses libxi libxxf86misc libxfont libxrender
libdmx libxaw libxxf86vm xcursor-themes xkeyboard-config
xorg-server-utils xorg-utils libdrm>=2.3.0 libxfixes
xorg-fonts-misc pixman>=0.9.6 xbitmaps libgl
Optional Deps : None
Required By : nvidia-utils
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 23721.05 K
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Architecture : x86_64
Build Date : Sat 26 Jan 2008 04:54:31 AM EST
Install Date : Sat 26 Jan 2008 12:20:51 PM EST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Description : X.Org X serversOffline
I've got this at the moment - it seems to come and go with each successive version of the nvidia drivers and used to happen when I was using Ubuntu as well, so it's not Arch-specific. I find that running nvidia-settings and checking Sync to VBlank/Sync to VBlank on display device under X Server XVideo Settings and Sync to VBlank under OpenGL Settings reduces the problem to a minimum. If it works for you then you'll probably want to find a way to run "nvidia-settings --load-config-only" when you log into your account.
Last edited by azleifel (2008-02-01 18:53:06)
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Name : nvidia
Version : 100.14.19-6
URL : http://www.nvidia.com/
Licences : custom
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : kernel26>=2.6.23.8-2 nvidia-utils
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Conflicts With : nvidia-96xx nvidia-71xx nvidia-legacy
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 6673.48 K
Packager : Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
Architecture : i686
Build Date : Sun 25 Nov 2007 14:59:03 GMT
Install Date : Fri 01 Feb 2008 18:35:42 GMT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Description : NVIDIA drivers for kernel26.
Name : xorg-server
Version : 1.4.0.90-5
URL : http://xorg.freedesktop.org
Licences : None
Groups : xorg
Provides : x-server
Depends On : gcc-libs libxkbui ncurses libxi libxxf86misc libxfont
libxrender libdmx libxaw libxxf86vm xcursor-themes
xkeyboard-config xorg-server-utils xorg-utils
libdrm>=2.3.0 libxfixes xorg-fonts-misc pixman>=0.9.6
xbitmaps libgl
Optional Deps : None
Required By : nvidia-utils
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 20386.43 K
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Architecture : i686
Build Date : Sun 20 Jan 2008 20:32:38 GMT
Install Date : Tue 22 Jan 2008 08:30:20 GMT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Description : X.Org X servershmmm, how come mine doesnt seem to have updated.
Ive just tried syncing to a different mirror, to make sure the mirror wasnt out of date.
Are you running testing?
Last edited by Kane (2008-02-01 18:54:03)
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Are you running testing?
yes
edit: you are right, I downgraded to xorg 1.4.0.90-4 and the problem went away. Guess we should file a bug since its more then just one of us that has noticed the problem.
I find that running nvidia-settings and checking Sync to VBlank/Sync to VBlank on display device under X Server XVideo Settings and Sync to VBlank under OpenGL Settings reduces the problem to a minimum.
that's how mine has always been. Doesn't change a thing. It was a recent update to arch that started this, I am just not sure which one.
Last edited by jacko (2008-02-01 19:09:36)
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yeah altering those settings didnt change a thing.
glad to know its not just me having this problem.
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yeah altering those settings didnt change a thing.
glad to know its not just me having this problem.
Well, I've fiddled around and got it down to - so far - the occasional glitch in Firefox by clearing out the accumulated cruft from the Device section of my xorg.conf and adding:
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"The whole section is now:
Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
Option "BackingStore" "True"
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
Option "DynamicTwinView" "False"
Option "UseEdidDpi" "False"
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
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@Kane did downgrading to 1.4.0.90-4 fix the problem for you?
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