Compositing Problem

[Jimmy Johnson]

On 10/20/2016 02:10 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> 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.

I unlocked 'libgl1-mesa-glx' so I could upgrade the 3 'mesa' packages of 
same version, with no ill effects and got a full, clean upgrade. 
Currently I have 23 nvidia+glx packages locked and all is well.
-- 
Jimmy Johnson

Debian Sid/Testing - KDE Plasma Version 5.8.2 - EXT4 at sda18
Registered Linux User #380263