Bug 466154 - Garbage on screen with the last NVIDIA display driver
Summary: Garbage on screen with the last NVIDIA display driver
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
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Product: openSUSE 11.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: KDE4 Workspace (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: 64bit openSUSE 11.1
: P5 - None : Normal with 5 votes (vote)
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Reported: 2009-01-14 19:17 UTC by Alexander Kireev
Modified: 2009-01-16 14:18 UTC (History)
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Description Alexander Kireev 2009-01-14 19:17:48 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; ru; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121300 SUSE/3.0.5-1.1 Firefox/3.0.5

There are garbage on screen in some situation after installing last NVidia display driver 180.22_2.6.27_9.1-4.1.
It is reproducible and affects:
1) At the beginning of login process
2) As background of the screen unlock form.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login to the system
or
1. Lock screen
2. Move mouse for unlock form
Actual Results:  
Garbage on the screen. After described situations all is ok.


Videocard: Palit NVidia GeForce 9800 GTX+
Display: Asus VK222H (DVI connection)
Comment 1 Forgotten User --EoyBps8f 2009-01-14 21:02:28 UTC 
Does it happen with the non-binary driver as well? If not it is likely a driver issue and can only be foxed by nvidia, i.e. should be reported to them.
Comment 2 Raghu GS 2009-01-16 04:56:42 UTC 
I can also confirm this issue.

This issue occurs only since updating to the latest 180.22 driver.
And the issue is purely a bug in the driver and not a package related bug.
As of my knowledge this issue occurs because of 180.22's placing of X pixmaps in your GPU's video memory instead of the traditional system memory.

You can try the following workaround.

    nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=1

Add the above command in your login manager or xinit startup file (i.e. ~/.xinitrc/~/.kderc/~/.gnomerc, etc

The above shown work around may affect the performance.
Comment 3 Lubos Lunak 2009-01-16 14:18:54 UTC 
Please report problems with nvidia driver directly to nvidia.