Hello,
I updated today Manjaro and that includes the nvidia driver (530.41.03). I have a Dell TFT with 1440p@144Hz
connected with Display Port. Im also using X11 and not Wayland.
Im experience short black flickering (flashes), even open kate (text editor) or starting terminal, it shows a strange behavior at random times.
After installing nvidia-settings (i have a 2080Ti) and after a restart i got it reduced a little (xserver was removed from nvidia-utils btw. so i had to reinstall it).
But i still see it flickers/flashes again when i open Steam or right now in Firefox, while i write this message.
I also openend a bug Topic in Manjaro Forum today, but with no success :(
Please help me outā¦ you can find some additional infos about my system and stuff like that in the Manjaro Forum:
This is probably a less than stellar thing to test with you running KDE but try disabling the compositor (KWin). Iāve been running a while without my compositor and the flickering seems to be gone. Iāll be interested if this fixes things for you too. Then at least weāll have an idea as to what the driver is causing issues with.
I unchecked the compositor (enabled on startup = off) and i think its reduced alot, but i saw it flashing again 2 time in the last 10min, im not sure if its a placebo but it looks less frequently nowā¦ but still there.
Maybe a restart is required for fully disable after i deactivate the check boxā¦ im not deactivated the service Kwin yet or should i try that next?
Like dvsaleios said, it has nothing to do with compositorā¦ i tested it out and i could see it flickering with compositor disabled, it may reduce a little because the powerstates not switching and jumping around as with compositor enabled but no real difference.
Do you know a work around? Maybe we can force the Powerstates somehow? If thats the only reason why it flickers.
I have not much hope, that nvidia will fix this driver bug anytime soon.
My last nvidia driver bug (dithering bug) on Linux took 1month till nvidia confirmed there is a bug going
and it takes another 3 month till it was fixed.
I swapped PowerMizer to āPrefer Maximum Performanceā in nvidia-settings. That mitigated it. Still happens but with a lot less frequency. I donāt know how the curve looks with that profile but it will sometimes go down to 2 from 4 every now and then.
Yeah, Iām hoping an NVIDIA engineer can clarify the proper issue at some point.
Changing power states does not trigger it for me. There is no doubt itās a driver bug, I never said the bug was the compositors but merely the flickering was the driver bug tripping up the compositor. If we can be free of the obnoxious flicker by shutting down the compositor for a few days until this is fixed then itās a better alternative.
I am running sans compositor and I have not seen the flicker. That said the driver bug is probably affecting various draw calls my machine doesnāt do but yours does due to running KDE. All the KDE effects and features will no doubt use various calls and transforms on the GPU that will trigger the problem far more than my WM.
For me it happens at any time. Working in Blender, Unity, playing Tarkov. Iāve looked at a few other bugs that got put into mainline and looks like if anyone checks my logs it will be at least a week or three before someone that can fix things will even notice.
I also see it alot when i work in Shotcut to Edit some Video filesā¦ when i hovering about the menue and the overlay shows up and so onā¦ maybe it is related to powerstates, but not onlyā¦ atleast thats what i guess.
You talking about that flashes in Tarkov when you in a menue or when you actual playing and running around?
I see it alot flashing when i playing Beyond all Reason and when im inside the lobby (2D) but on the 3D environment, there is everything fineā¦ or i might just dont saw it yet.
It happens at any time. Like I said in my original post there is no workload or āthingā that triggers it more or less. I can be in menus, playing, working, coding, doesnāt matter. There doesnāt seem to be a timed cadence/interval either.
Given killing picom seems to have quelled it it makes me think there are some draw calls the new driver does that trips various things up. Just so happens on my machine picom is the most affected. That said I also never get anything in the syslogs or any other log about errors or issues when it happens. Just there then gone until the next time with seemingly no indication anything happened other than I saw it.
After doing an upgrade to the 530 driver, I encounter the same problem as you. However, since iāve added the following kernel boot parameter, the flickering seems to be gone.
nvidia_drm.modeset=1
Without that, opening a text editor, a web browser, scrolling a web page or even watching a video, my monitor flicker 2 or 3 time every minutes (or two if iām lucky).
But since iāve added this to grub my monitor doesnāt flicker anymore.
Maybe, for those who encounter this weird thing, you can try that.
GPU : RTX 2080
120hz gsync monitor
OS : Debian unstable with 530-41-03 driver from experimental repo.
English is not my native language. Sorry for grammatical mistakes.