Compositing Problem

[Jimmy Johnson]

On 10/20/2016 12:22 AM, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> Control: tag -1 + help
>
> �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.

Yes!  Jessie-backports are the same version as Sid's old version before 
the upgrade.  Why upgraded, I have no idea.

> 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.

I have been testing, I have 7 installs on this machine, if someone wants 
me to try a fix I can try. 2 plasma installs on my Intel laptop and the 
laptop is loving plasma, my second desktop is ATI and Intel and no 
problem with the display, but has a couple other problems I'm working on 
due to a quick upgrade to plasma from wheezy.

> 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 escribi�:
>> 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.
>
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Jimmy Johnson

Debian Sid/Testing - KDE Plasma Version 5.8.2 - EXT4 at sda15
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