[Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid
So I did end up seeing the refresh problems while using the aplattner- patched compiz and Emerald. After turning Emerald back off, no refresh problem so far. I wonder if this is some timing thing and I am just lucky when I have emerald turned off. fimbulvetr, did you try the aplattner-patched compiz? It looks like you don't have it installed. -- Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269904 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid
JoeLinux: I turned on emerald, using GrayDarkIce theme, and it doesn't seem to be any different. No terminal/tab switching artifacts. So now our package versions match exactly. xorg.conf maybe? I'll attach mine. These might be relevant: Load"glx" Disable "dri2" Are you using KDE? Maybe that's the difference, I'm using Gnome. ** Attachment added: "xorg.conf" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18744856/xorg.conf -- Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269904 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid
Hey, JoeLinux, which compiz versions do you have exactly? We have identical cards and nearly identical laptops D830 vs D630, and I used to see the firefox problems you describe but not any more. $ dpkg -l |grep compiz ii compiz-core 1:0.7.8-0ubuntu4~ppa1 OpenGL window and compositing manager ii compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 0.7.8-0ubuntu2 Collection of extra plugins from OpenComposi ii compiz-fusion-plugins-main0.7.8-0ubuntu2 Collection of plugins from OpenCompositing f ii compiz-gnome 1:0.7.8-0ubuntu4~ppa1 OpenGL window and compositing manager - GNOM ii compiz-plugins1:0.7.8-0ubuntu4~ppa1 OpenGL window and compositing manager - plug ii compiz-wrapper1:0.7.8-0ubuntu4~ppa1 OpenGL window and compositing manager, wrapp ii compizconfig-backend-gconf0.7.8-0ubuntu1 Settings library for plugins - OpenCompositi ii compizconfig-settings-manager 0.7.8-0ubuntu3 Compiz configuration settings manager ii libcompizconfig0 0.7.8-0ubuntu2 Settings library for plugins - OpenCompositi ii python-compizconfig 0.7.8-0ubuntu1 Compiz configuration system bindings $ uname -a Linux kiomava-d830 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 17 22:24:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux -- Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269904 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid
I've been using the aplattner-patched compiz version for a few days now, no compiz tweaks (no messing with loose bindings or indirect rendering or similar), updating to the latest intrepid at least daily. I also haven't messed with nvidia-settings, as I have done in the past with Hardy. I have apt set up with a pin priority to avoid accidentally updating to an unpatched compiz. I use terminal all the time, and firefox, among other things, and haven't seen any of the refresh problems I saw before. I did see very frequent problems in terminal before the patch, especially it seemed when scrolling/paging and with the cursor at the bottom of the window. But no refresh/damage-related problems at all after that patch, and I've been trying to push it the last few days. More details about my setup: Nvidia 177.80 driver, installed using administration/hardware drivers thing (not directly from nvidia installer or envy) 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Oct 14 18:40:44 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Dell D830 nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 135M (rev a1) nvidia-settings InitialPixmapPlacement is 1 (the default) nvidia-settings GlyphCache is 0 (also default) Also someone mentioned about nvidia hardware problems being important to consider, but since I boot to XP and Hardy and don't see problems I don't think that's a factor for me. -- Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269904 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid
$ lspci -n |grep 300 01:00.0 0300: 10de:042b (rev a1) $ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 135M (rev a1) I had this problem, most easily reproducible switching between firefox tabs. After trying the fix at: https://launchpad.net/~aplattner/+archive things seem to be working well now. As BUGabundo pointed out it would help to up the package version there, since trying this fix otherwise requires removing/reinstalling the older compiz packages, and adding a pin-priority entry in /etc/apt/preferences to do it the sources.list way. -- Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269904 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 232197] Re: firefox 3.0 very slow on some sites, blocking computer
At least in my case this seems to be an nvidia bug. I found in the nvidia forums: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=114858 I tried their suggested temporary fix: nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=0 -a GlyphCache=1 They say this will be fixed in a future driver release. I tried the nvidia-supplied 177.13 beta driver and the fix wasn't there. Their fix helped a lot. Firefox doesn't freeze anymore. Unfortunately, those nvidia-settings options seem to make compiz segfault, but I can live with that. -- firefox 3.0 very slow on some sites, blocking computer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/232197 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 232197] Re: firefox 3.0 very slow on some sites, blocking computer
I also see this on one of my two setups. Dell E1405 laptop, 1GB RAM, hardy 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-19 x86, Core T2300 x86, intel 945 graphics, 1440x900: everything is ok (Firefox3) Dell D830, hardy 8.04, 2GB RAM, kernel 2.6.24-19 64 bit, Core T7300, nVidia Quadro NVS 135M, 1920x1200: Firefox3, Opera, Epiphany freeze consistently on certain sites. Firefox2 does not freeze on the same sites. I have Compiz disabled on the D830. Enabling it doesn't impact the firefox freeze problem. I also tried the latest driver directly from nvidia, and that also had no effect on the FF freeze. When Firefox3 freezes, all of X becomes unresponsive for several seconds, about 10 seconds. I can move the mouse around smoothly, but nothing else seems to be alive. I have a few system graphs in my gnome panel that normally update every 250ms, and they all freeze. When they come back, the intermediate seconds are not recorded on the graphs, strangely. Even hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get a console does not happen until the freeze is over. I get in /var/log/Xorg.0.log multiple entries of: tossed event which came in late mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping. I'm guessing those log entries are a symptom and not indicative of the cause. I think I've seen this in other apps besides web browsers, but it's much more sporadic. Right now it will freeze 100% of the time in firefox-3 at certain pages. The one I get it at is: http://grails.org/GORM+-+Defining+relationships. I actually don't get any freeze at stogame.net like the above poster did. I just noticed this only seems to only happen when the firefox window is above a certain size. when i resize the window on the troublesome web site, so it's small, say about 25% of the screen surface area or approx 960x600, it seems ok and doesn't freeze. I can resize it and it will respond quickly as long as the size is small. but when the size gets above a certain amount, it will get very slow, and freeze for seconds. The larger the surface area, the longer the freeze seems to be. You know, this reminds me of behavior I've seen programming for image buffers on accelerated graphics cards. If you tried to allocate an image buffer above what the graphics hardware could handle, the driver would fall back to a non-accelerated software buffer, which was much slower. Maybe that's what's going on but for some reason it locks some critical system resource as it accesses the slow software image buffer, so all the other processes get blocked. Just a total guess there. -- firefox 3.0 very slow on some sites, blocking computer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/232197 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
