Nvidia driver 555.58.02 causes graphical artifacts in wayland sessions on external monitor

Graphics / Linux Linux
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I am having an issue in wayland sessions after updating to driver 555: generally the problem manifests itself in random flickery graphical glitches on an external monitor.

Laptop: Lenovo Legion 7 16ACHg6 (AMD Ryzen 7 5800H + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile / Max-Q)
Monitor: Xiaomi Curved Gaming Monitor 34" (3440x1440) - Xiaomi Curved Gaming Monitor 34" – Xiaomi Australia
Software: Arch Linux, KDE Plasma 6.1

Happens:

  • Both with monitor being connected over HDMI and DisplayPort (via a Type-C dock, as it’s not exposed directly on this laptop)
  • Both with XWayland and native Wayland windows
  • Both with NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware not set and set to 0
  • Both when the app runs on the AMD iGPU and on the Nvidia GPU (with prime-run)

Doesn’t happen:

  • On X11
  • On the laptop screen (I believe, unlike external monitor ports, it’s connected to my iGPU)
  • On an older Nvidia driver (550.90.07)

(I haven’t tested all the combinations of these factors, but rather changed one variable at a time. My “default” configuration is DisplayPort over Type-C, with the monitor running at 144 fps)

The higher the display FPS, the worse the issue is: tested from 50 fps to 144 fps. With 144 fps it happens very often. With 50 fps it is comparatively rarer, but still quite reproducible.

The patters look somewhat like checkerboard (albeit with rectangular squares), often showing the contents of a previously visible window (see repro_osu_lazer_map_selection_2 in the attacked archive). They are also often located on the edges of the screen.

Happens in, seemingly, every application. The most reliable way to reproduce for me was to use osu! lazer 2024.625.2 with no framerate limit on the stable OpenGL renderer, with the external monitor running at 144 fps. Then the glitches are either visible on the main menu screen or in the map selection screen when selecting a random map with F2.

Also happens with:

  • Minecraft 1.20.4, walking or even standing
  • resizing large windows
  • going into fullscreen on YouTube in Firefox
  • watching a photo or video in telegram desktop

Here’s a result of running the nvidia-bug-report.sh script: nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (1.8 MB)
And here’s an archive with multiple videos of the bug being visible: repro_videos.zip (48.5 MB)

Hope this will help you reproduce and fix this issue!

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Update: I found a way to make the 555.58.02 driver work without graphical glitches: switching the laptop to Discrete Graphics-only in the UEFI settings. Without this kwin runs on iGPU, probably requiting some complicated reverse PRIME or smth. So far I got it running fine for about one day in this configuration.

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I have the same issue except my glitches are 10 times worse and my laptop doesn’t have an option to only use the nvidia GPU.

I tried every Wayland compositor and they all have the same problem, so now I’m back to X11.

Is nvidia aware of / working on this?