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On 14/04/2014 15:50, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 05:20:12AM +0200, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote |
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>> was updated and I installed Linux 3.12.17 (vanilla) and recompiled |
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>> the nvidia-drivers and finally the X11-modules, a really annoying |
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>> thing happened: |
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>> When a program uses the screen overlay technique (right word???) to |
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>> display (mainly) videos (me-tv, flashplayer, Blender while rendering) |
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>> ANY and everything on any desktop, which has a black background (mutt, |
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>> urxvt to only name a few) displays the video even the video |
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>> application runs on a different desktop. |
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>> Handling the desktops then becomes a masterpieces of focus and |
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>> counting.... ;) |
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>> I am using openbox, nvidia-drivers, linux 3.12.17 vanilla, me-tv, |
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>> flashplayer, blender (daily build taken from blenders buildbot). |
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>> What can I do to get rid of this effect? |
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> This seems to be a common problem with nvidia video cards using the |
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> nvidia binary blobs. I ran into it some time ago. If you don't want to |
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> get rid of the nvidia card, try the Nouveau open-source drivers. You |
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> won't get all the acceleration that the Nvidia binaries provide, but at |
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> least you probably won't get the problems you have now. |
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+1 to this |
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The nvidia blobs do work well as long as you use them the way they were |
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intended to be used. |
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The way they were intended to be used is the same way Windows uses them, |
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the Linux and Windows drivers share the bulk of the internal code and |
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Linux feature set most definitely is not the driving force here :-) |
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Which means some awesome things the X server can do simply do not work |
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with the blob. The blob also rips out most of the OpenGL and framebuffer |
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code and replaces it with it's own mysterious black magic, this can add |
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more wrinkles. |
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And finally, the Nvidia blob is not at all integrated with the kernel in |
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any meaningful way, so your running kernel usually ends up 2-4 versions |
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behind current. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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