I have a dual boot system Windows 10 (22H2, driver 527.37) and Arch linux (6.0.12, driver 525.60) In the last monthes I encountered a lot of distortions under linux, especially on youtube. Examples for that are [Damals in Haaren 1939-1947- Alltagsleben im Paderborner Land | FILMSCHÄTZE] …

My graphics card is a GeForce GTX 1650, no other graphics card(s) installed. The second image is the following [problem2]

That might be, but as far as I see, there is no working solution (either). One question: As it might only be visible on my screen (and only for me in this thread): Can you clearly identify the effects I mentioned in the pictures? And if yes, does it make sense to merge this thread into the other …

By the way: Downgrading the driver to 515.76 - as suggested in the other thread - did not resolve the problem. PS Further downgrading to 515.57 resulted in an unusable system. I guess, that driver version did not support the 1650. Am I right? Is there somewhere a list of drivers versions that are …

In case, the above pictures just show my problem on my screen, here are two pictures taken from my monitor [dist1] [dist2] The rings around the girl, and the distortion above the door are clearly visible.

Yes, in your initial posts I was not able to see any issue on my monitor, the new fotos show the banding. According to the changelog, the 1650 is supported since 2019-05-07 version 418.74 So I guess 515.57 just didn’t build on your kernel. Rather use the 470 legacy version as a check point.

Unfortunately, downgrade nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils further than to the already unusable version 515.57 is not possible on my system (which is kernel 6.1.2 now). I also tried that with the lts-kernel (5.15.86) and nvidia, nvidia-lts packages instead of the nvidia-dkms package. Both result in a sys…

I managed to get two backup system (on my hard disk and an USB stick) running with older drivers Kernel 5.19.3 nvidia 515.65.01-2 Kernel 5.15.86 (lts) and nvidia-dkms 470.74 For both combinations, the banding is much less (but not gone) for the first example, and it’s almost gone for the second e…

I rather got the impression the driver uses the wrong bpp for your monitor, did you also try to “changing the “depth” setting from Auto to 8bpc”?

I tried all combinations that are possible in the Dithering controls. I even tried to switch Dithering off. Right now, they are set to Auto, Auto, 8 bpc. Before that they were set to Auto, Temporal, 8 bpc (Hardware default was Auto, Auto, 6 bpc, for some unknown reason) There is indeed a differ…

Video distortion with current linux driver

Graphics / Linux Linux

generix December 21, 2022, 10:55am 3

Maybe what you’re seeing is the same as this?
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/color-banding-and-animation-issues-with-520-56-06/231229?u=generix

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