Turning on TripleBuffer reduces the frequency of the flickering, but does not completely eliminate it, both with and without nvidia_drm.modeset=1.
Driver: 535.104.05
GPU: GeForce RTX 2070
OS: CachyOS
Kernel: 6.5.1
Screen resolution: 3840x2160@60Hz
Any update on the fix for this now that you can reproduce it @amrits?
Patient? More like too poor to just replace things. ;p
I have Debian 12.1 (kernel 6.1.0-10-amd64) with RTX 4060 (535.104.05), with the Powermizer default value “auto” i have the flicker issue. Recently set to “adaptive” and so far (less than 1h) flicker not occur but i think it will be return)
Just popping in to confirm a couple of things I’ve seen about this issue in this thread or elsewhere.
I’ve had this issue since I switched back from WSL to a full Linux desktop as my daily driver a few months back. IIRC, it first started when trying to solve tearing problems. Eventually, I reverted my settings after it showed up and forgot about it, assuming I’d just misconfigured something. A while later I tried to fix tearing again and the problem reappeared after switching on ‘Force Full Composition Pipeline’. It was either absent before then, or I didn’t notice it occurring. Interestingly, as far as I can tell it stops completely after resuming from suspend, but comes back after a reboot. I’m sure I’ve seen that behaviour mentioned somewhere with regard to power management issues. Something about the card drawing more power than expected, or not throttling down properly until resuming from suspend, after which it behaves.
Notice same issue on windows 10. On the same machine (in dualboot). RTX 4060, driver - 536.40
Mine has extremely bad flickers, to a point where it’s not usable outside of the windows partition.
System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-83-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.8.4
tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: GIGABYTE product: AORUS 5 KE v: N/A serial: Chassis:
type: 10 v: y.y serial:
Mobo: GIGABYTE model: AORUS 5 KE v: WIN11 serial:
UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: FB08 date: 08/25/2022
CPU:
Info: 14-core (6-mt/8-st) model: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700H bits: 64 type: MST AMCP
arch: Alder Lake rev: 3 cache: L1: 1.2 MiB L2: 11.5 MiB L3: 24 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 757 high: 916 min/max: 400/4600:4700:3500 cores: 1: 813 2: 502 3: 826 4: 823
5: 899 6: 634 7: 744 8: 916 9: 721 10: 855 11: 764 12: 899 13: 785 14: 863 15: 698 16: 878
17: 432 18: 682 19: 712 20: 709 bogomips: 107520
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P Integrated Graphics vendor: Gigabyte driver: i915 v: kernel ports:
active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:46a6
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia
v: 525.125.06 pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: none empty: DP-5,HDMI-A-1
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2520
Device-3: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-9:3
chip-ID: 13d3:56a2
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 102
Monitor-1: eDP-1-1 mapped: eDP-1 model: Sharp LQ156M1JW03 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 142
diag: 395mm (15.5")
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 525.125.06
direct render: Yes
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 52 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Hello, I appreciate the reply. Is there a driver update planned that will undoubtedly resolve this issue once and for all time? This flashing has gotten to be quite annoying and frustrating. Don’t make the Linux community feel bad for choosing Nvidia. It’s been a few months since this issue first appeared. The problem, as far as I know, is root caused. Unfortunately, I need kernel 6.5 in order to get my laptop to run well. If the 525 drivers had compiled, I would have installed them long ago.
You can reduce the flickering by reducing the refresh rate (for instance 60Hz). But it’s still super bad.
RTX 2080ti connected via DP to 144Hz 1080p screen. Running Arch 6.5.3-arch1-1, X11 and drivers 535.104.05.
Flickering still persists every other minute for a frame or two in the top quarter of the screen. changing powermizer settings doesn’t resolve the issue
Still flickers from time to time with the latest 535.113.01 release.
GPU: GeForce RTX 2070
OS: CachyOS
Kernel: 6.5.4
Screen resolution: 3840x2160@60Hz
Same issue. However, putting the system to sleep and resuming stops these completely for some reason.
You’re right, after resuming from sleep mode, the flicker disappeared! Thanks!
I hope NVIDIA will fix it someday
For me suspend doesn’t seem to make it disappear completely. It’ll start again sooner or later.
Like downsj above, I’ve also just made an account to comment on this thread.
I can confirm I still have intermittent screen flicker on Endeavour running 6.5.3-arch-1-1 kernel & driver version 535.104.05 (2070 Super).
Things have gotten progressively better with each update, but nothing has solved the issue. At this point I’m thinking of swapping in an AMD card since I can get access to one—it shouldn’t have to come to that, but who knows how long this issue will go on for. Frustrating to say the least.
Same issue over here, specs:
Observations:
i7-9700K / 2070 Super
Mint 21.2 Cinnamon / 5.15.0-84-generic / Driver version: 535.104.05
Monitor: LG 27GP850P-B, 1440p@164.96hz
Flickers for me. In games seems to be fine(tested for 10 minutes). 1/3 of the top screen black mostly(sometimes white).
Seeing that this issue drags from at least June is really depressing. If NVIDIA doesn’t test its products properly - at the very least development team should be confident in their ability to fix issues quickly. Bug that prevents most basic usage of the GPU is 1 quarter old. And that’s in mature product that Turing series is supposed to be. It’s scary to think how Ada Lovelace is behaves on Linux systems.
P.S. Why does it says that “topic is solved” when I’m replying? It’s not.
Yes, it is impressive how “NVIDIA the market leader” can’t fix a bug of this kind in a timely manner.
The “topic is solved” should have be removed now: I don’t know if it was an admin or me misclicking.
Hello,
I have a hunch that there is something wrong with the blob that is delivered and used by the driver.
Since going from 470.182.03 to 470.199.02 I was surprised to have occasional flickering - either the whole screen(s) or just the top.
The context of the flickering was the following:
You could blame it on the kernel changes, the setup (external screen - ASUS PA278QV, DisplayPort), but I can really feel a difference between the two versions of the driver.
I hope this helps with the investigations; if someone needs extra details about my setup I could provide them.
Cheers and good luck finding and fixing the root problem !
edited to fix formatting.
Hey it’s me again.
I noticed that the flickering problem occured also for me today although i said weeks ago that was fixed.
I installed Counter Strike 2, and the flickering doesn’t stop!!