Compositing Problem

[David Baron]

On יום חמישי, 20 באוקטובר 2016 9:22:29 IDT Maximiliano Curia wrote:
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> 
> ¡Hola NVIDIA Maintainers!
> 
> It seems that the new plasma version has some kind of incompatibility with
> the nvidia-legacy-304xx packages in sid. The following mail reports that
> using the nvidia packages from backports works as expected.
> 
> In the kde team we are not using nvidia cards, so we can't reproduce/test
> this. And frankly, this might be way out of our league. :( Thus the request
> for help.
> 
> Is this issue known to you?
> Should this bug be reassigned to the nvidia packages?
> Can you reproduce it? If so, can you point us to what the problem might be?
> 
> Happy hacking,
> 
> El 2016-10-19 a las 23:33 -0700, Jimmy Johnson escribió:
> > On 10/12/2016 12:10 PM, David Baron wrote:
> >> Running must recent kwin, etc., with Sid nvidia-legacy-304xx driver.
> >> 
> >> Window decorations slow or do not show on non-KDE windows. If they do not
> >> show, one can pretend they are there and do everything.
> >> 
> >> Effects all compositing options.
> >> 
> >> Where to file bug?
> >> Quick fix?
> > 
> > Quick fix, force install all your 'nvidia' and 'glx' installed
> > packages back to 'Jessie-backports' and then 'lock-them' works, maybe
> > 20-24 packages that you will be locking, varies a little with my
> > installs, some I had not upgraded and I only had to lock the packages.
> > I used synaptic while in xfce4 and all your kde apps work from xfce4
> > too as a side note.  Note no problem with upgrades and those files
> > being locked, at this time anyways. hehe
> > 
> > There's a lot noise out there about fix's, I found nothing works for
> > me.  I came up with this fix and it works.  While gtk works with the
> > upgrade, plasma don't, it's a problem with plasma, you can't blame
> > nvidia and say they are not doing their part, this is a problem debian
> > plasma, I'm sure they are working on it. Seems to affect only
> > 'legacy-304' and could be a simple code error.
> > 
> > With the Debian-nvidia driver: Plasma is unable to start as it could
> > not correctly use OpenGL2.  Note dialog is working, sound is working,
> > no plasma.
> > 
> > With the Debian-free driver, computer freeze with colorful squiggly
> > lines and I have to push the power button and repair the file system.
> > 
> > David, do you have a better fix than down-grading the packages?  And I
> > may not need to down grade as many packages as I do, but it works.

1. Previous bug reassigned to 304xx of AceofPeguins Freecell game failing to 
start apparently healed itself, no new 304xx so maybe something else!

2. For 841242 (I filed this one as well as starting this thread beforehand), 
Plasma does start. What will not work is starting compositing on start, had to 
hand edit that out of the rc file.

3. Toggling compisitor choices will restore the title bar decorations for the 
current session. This might seem to contra-indicate 304xx being the source of 
the problem. If this assessment is not correct, maybe do reassign.

4. If downgrading 304xx be the only way now, please give me step by step how 
to do this since testing packages are broken. Using dkms.