Compositing Problem

[Jimmy Johnson]

On 10/19/2016 11:33 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> 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 updated Sid/testing a couple days ago and retested current drivers, 
"nouveau" is working with sddm okay but froze with plasma(colorful 
lighting bolts).  Current nvidia-legacy-304xx is working with XRender 
and compositing enabled and I'm good with that, tested on Stretch too, 
now I can do clean upgrades and I'm happy. Thank you Debian!
-- 
Jimmy Johnson

Debian Stretch - Plasma 5.8.2 - nvidia-legacy-304xx - EXT4 at sda14
Registered Linux User #380263