Happy birthday to you NVIDIA repaint bug.
It’s okay guys, Nvidia are hard at work on making pointless entertainment platforms.
One of the Gnome devs posted a patch for Mutter which works. I don’t have a 100-200 ms delay anymore when the card is in powersave mode and I rename folders.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728464
EDIT: Might not be 100% trouble free.
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GNOME devs are working on it, but considering GNOME 3.16 just entered release candidate stage, they must be really busy right now getting everything ready and stable. I guess it’s only a matter of time now.
On my GTX 660 the wip patch gets rid of the bug entirely, now they “only” need to prevent the lock-screen from freezing and everything will be just fine.
Some news from GNOME devs, there are still bugs in the nVidia drivers preventing the patch from being bug-free.
nVidia devs, is there any ETA for this? (Yeah I know, it’s been asked a billion times, but who knows…)
Wow. I have suffered in silence for the last year. I finally took the time to investigate why performance in the terminal has been so lousy and it turns out it is a problem with my GTX 580 and the nvidia drivers!
Setting “Prefer Maximum Performance” in the powermizer settings helps alleviate a lot of the performance issues, but there is still a slight noticeable delay.
Nvidia Driver: 346.59-1
Kernel: 3.19.3-1
Gnome: 3.16
So I removed my GTX 580 and switched to the Intel Haswell integrated graphics and the problem disappears. I can also now use VNC! Does this problem only affect the GTX 580? Will I have the same problem if I buy a GTX 970? Thanks!
I have a GTX 660 and I also have this problem.
To be fair, I have problems with all DEs nowadays with nVidia:
XFCE4, KDE5 and Mate have tearing all over the place as soon as PowerMizer lowers the card’s clock, turning VSync on in the compositor settings or in the drivers won’t change a thing. If I add ForceFullCompositionPipeline to the Xorg conf the tearing is gone but the mouse pointer disappears on the top edge of the screen. I tried several workarounds, to no avail.
Geforce gtx 260, fedora 21. akmod-nvidia-340xx driver.
I don’t have problems with the terminal (had them in arch with gnome 3.12).
Everything seems quite fast and responsive.
But I do have glitches (redrawing problems) in the file explorer when renaming files.
Also there are redrawing lags when hovering over minimize, maximize, close buttons.
With nouveau - no problems.
@demizer, I’d recommend that you just don’t buy another nvidia card - You’ve already proven to yourself that you’re getting a better experience immediately after switching to an intel card.
Intel cards are far better supported and while they don’t have as much power as a dedicated chip life is much better without nvidia. This bug will eventually get fixed after a long, long, ABSURDLY LONG wait with piss-all involvement in this forum from Nvidia. But another one will pop up and it will take effing forever to get fixed.
Just use intel. It works and it isn’t run by a scummy organization.
nVidia, seriously, ANY NEWS ABOUT THIS?
This is pathetic.
Indeed.
Still no fix in 352.09.
I wish I could ask for my money back, but sadly, this is a company computer.
Dear nVidia,
It’s been almost two weeks since my last message and you still don’t even take notice of the hard time we’re all having down there with your piece of hardware. Since then I saw you’ve been releasing a new beta, loaded with fixes for GSync, a very pricey technology no one cares about. I’m worried for you. Maybe you’re just becoming senile, or you’re just losing your mind. Maybe you think I won’t cheat on you, that I won’t go away, that you’ll still get my money with the next Geforce X60 product that allows an extra 5 FPS compared to the previous gen (on 3-year-old games, not to mention).
Come on, just correct that thing before it’s been there for two years.
I’m really getting sick and tired of this.
I’m so sick and goddamn tired of them not saying anything. What the hell are we supposed to do other than twiddle our thumbs here?
Have you tried using a DE / WM that isn’t a trainwreck?
Sorry to inform you but Gnome is by far one of the most popular if not the most popular desktop environment.
https://brashear.me/blog/2014/05/18/results-of-the-2014-slash-r-slash-linux-distribution-survey/
https://www.archlinux.de/?page=FunStatistics
It is also not doing anything wrong, since it works with nouveau or Intel drivers just fine.
If nouveau had proper power management and reclocking it would even manage to display animations in a smooth way.
You’re welcome.
Idiot trolls aside, I think the nearly 18 thousand views this thread has enjoyed indicates the issue’s gravity.
Fuck me sideways for what appears to be the worst response for a company to fix their stuff in a long time.