[Nixos, Nvidia card, Gnome] After waking from sleep, some of my windows are often glitchy

Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 3 days ago

[Nixos, Nvidia card, Gnome] After waking from sleep, some of my windows are often glitchy

ElectroLisa@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 days ago

You should give it 5 more minutes, it’s still walking up /s

HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 days ago

So bazzite gets gui issues if I close the lid and it sleeps but not if I sleep from the start menu.

Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 2 days ago

Those are probably different sleep states. I don’t know much about it, but maybe this will help? https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.15/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.html

HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 days ago

its definately not hibernation as I could set it to that instead of sleep but there is only one sleep option. I could see this as the way the os kinda works everything is its own thing so I could see the power management sleep being different than the click a button and sleep.

Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 2 days ago

I don’t know, I’m sorry. I hope you figure it out!

HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 days ago

honestly I just use the click to sleep instead of closing the lid. its not really to big a deal for me I just mentioned it to let you know other linux distros seem to some degree to have sleep issues to.

canaryWart@programming.dev · 2 days ago

Sorry, can’t help, but it’d be so cool to do this on purpose and unscramble on hover

Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 2 days ago

It is neat, I agree! Almost like a privacy blur.

Björn@swg-empire.de · 2 days ago

I think I had a similar error on my laptop (MX150). If I recall correctly it would unscramble a bit while passing with the mouse over it.

I’ve since ditched the nvidia card and only use the also included Intel one.

Deebster@infosec.pub · 2 days ago

I think I’ve seen other nvidia users have this issue, and it turned out to be a problem with the driver not preserving font bitmaps. Does the corruption go away or change if you zoom in/out (i.e. change the font size)?

Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 2 days ago

I’ll try it and let you know.

petrichornetrainfall@piefed.social · 2 days ago

I wouldn’t jump to your gpu going bad. There’s been quite a few issues in the past with nvidia + sleep + power management.

I would recommend trying to comment out those values you shared, the generally recommendation is to use to the defaults when it comes to nvidia, unless youre positive you need to override them for some reason you feel very confident about.

A lot of them aren’t named clearly and dont always do what you expect, at least from what ive read and from my personal experience.

It also completes things a bit because gnome and kde like to automatically decide what gpu to use for what, its a little opaque, and sometimes causes issues.

petrichornetrainfall@piefed.social · 2 days ago

Also are you intentionally using “novaveu” instead of their “open” version? If so, not “judgement” or anything, just wanting to confirm. Also what gen nvidia gpu? Alot of the settings have different defaults depending on whether your over or under a certain gen.

Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 2 days ago

The Nixos Wiki is often annoyingly confusing and/or out of date. I built my config based on the wiki but options are introduced in different sections and it isn’t clear which ones are supposed to be used together. Maybe I’ll bother the wiki maintainers on Matrix.

I’m not “intentionally” using either driver version, so I’m happy to switch!

https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/common/gpu/nvidia/pascal/default.nix

Only lists two option lines. Trying that now.

  # The open source driver does not support Pascal GPUs.
  hardware.nvidia.open = false;
  hardware.nvidia.package = lib.mkDefault config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.legacy_580;

Well this is confusing. I added it set to true because sometimes the system doesn’t respond to input when it’s suspended and I need to reboot. Wonder if it’s contributing. I’ll leave it on for now, and turn it off once I’ve tried the two liner above for a few days.

Graphical corruption and system crashes on suspend/resume powerManagement.enable = true can sometimes fix this, but is itself unstable and is known to cause suspend issues. hardware.nvidia.powerManagement.enable = true can also sometimes fix this issue; it is false by default.

I’m running an Nvidia GTX 1070 (10th gen, Pascal) and I hadn’t remembered my system being that old! I don’t remember when I bought it, and I guess it’s too late to do anything about it now. Though maybe I can still get a previous-gen AMD card at a not too-outrageous price and have a big upgrade.

From lspci:

[nix-shell:~]$ sudo lshw -c video
[sudo] password for clay: 
  *-display                 
       product: nouveaudrmfb
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       logical name: /dev/fb0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom fb
       configuration: depth=32 driver=nouveau latency=0 resolution=3840,1600
       resources: irq:138 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff

petrichornetrainfall@piefed.social · 2 days ago

You are 100% right about thr wiki, and it doesnt help that there’s an unofficial wiki that pops up in search results too. And the wiki it especially out of date and confusing for nvidia. Its a known problem, and a bunch of “high level” contributers complain about it in discorse threads all the time.

You linked “nixos-hardware” repo, so you’ve obviously done your homework. If youre not importing that as a flake, and importing the “common-gpu-nvidia” (or whatever the module is actually exposed as, thats just the pathing) modules, and instead grabbing the values manually, then you also need to grab the ones from here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/common/gpu/nvidia/default.nix

Your gpu is too old to be includes in the cuttoff that nvidia did when starting to open source their drivers, but i wouldn’t say its too old to be usable or anything.

The wiki is out of date when they say power Management is experimental and unstable, I recommend setting that to true.

I think the main problem is using nouveau drivers, and setting the option provided in the link above should switch that to their closed source drivers. If you make that change, definitely do a rebuild boot instead of switch, and then reboot into the new Gen.

Its so annoying thag theres open (nouveau), open (nvidia - but only newer gpus), and closed (nvidia). There’s been a lot of talk about making major changes to the nixos nvidia configuration settings, but there’s a lot of conflicting ideas about how to improve them so it hasn’t made much progress.

And apologizes for any weird formatting, especially around option names, on my phone.

Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 2 days ago

I appreciate the common tip; I’ll add that.

My rebuild switch reboot seems to be working fine, so I’ll see what happens…

Thanks for the time to spent trying to help me!

petrichornetrainfall@piefed.social · 1 day ago

Im glad to hear that! Whenever I have changes for nvidia, I always need to “rebuild boot” and reboot, but that might be because I use “open = true” or because how I have home-manager setup.

No problem! I’ve been in a similar situation if you couldn’t tell lol, I hope the changes work out!

just_another_person@lemmy.world · 3 days ago

Did you update the kernel or the Nvidia driver package recently? This is a bug that comes and goes for both AMD and Nvidia cards. Your GPU is fine.

Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 2 days ago

Thank you for the reassurance. I update packages automatically, but I don’t see either of those having changed recently. I’ll keep an eye out for upgrades touching them.