Bug 98266

Summary: Geforce GTX 960: display corruption under KDE Plasma
Product: Mesa Reporter: peter.eszlari
Component: Drivers/DRI/nouveauAssignee: Nouveau Project <nouveau>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Nouveau Project <nouveau>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: 12.0   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Attachments: nouveau GTX960 corruption under KDE Plasma

Description peter.eszlari 2016-10-14 18:49:25 UTC
Created attachment 127309 [details]
nouveau GTX960 corruption under KDE Plasma

The selection of menu items gets corrupted under KDE Plasma 5.7 with a Geforce GTX 960 and the nouveau driver. When I turn off compositing or use the Nvidia binary driver, these corruptions are gone.
Comment 1 Ilia Mirkin 2016-10-14 18:52:54 UTC
What Xorg and kernel versions are you using?
Comment 2 peter.eszlari 2016-10-15 03:57:43 UTC
I'm running on Kubuntu 16.10 with Xorg 1.18.4 and kernel 4.8.0.
Comment 3 Pablo Cholaky 2016-10-15 19:31:34 UTC
I think this is related with all Maxwell2 cards. I have a 980m, and I also have a lot of artifacts on screen, and the mouse have a weird delay.
Comment 4 Pablo Cholaky 2016-10-15 19:32:32 UTC
(In reply to Pablo Cholaky from comment #3)
> I think this is related with all Maxwell2 cards. I have a 980m, and I also
> have a lot of artifacts on screen, and the mouse have a weird delay.

My bad, I meant a weird UI refresh delay for mouse.
Comment 5 Ilia Mirkin 2016-10-17 02:09:14 UTC
I just published some patches that allow you to use xf86-video-nouveau instead of modesetting for GM20x GPUs. Can you see if using it improves the situation at all? You can build it from

https://github.com/imirkin/xf86-video-nouveau
Comment 6 peter.eszlari 2016-10-26 05:46:00 UTC
(In reply to Ilia Mirkin from comment #5)
> I just published some patches that allow you to use xf86-video-nouveau
> instead of modesetting for GM20x GPUs. Can you see if using it improves the
> situation at all? You can build it from
> 
> https://github.com/imirkin/xf86-video-nouveau

This fixes the bug. But from Xorg.log it looks like I was already running nouveau before.

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