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KWhat
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 Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2021 6:15 am Post subject: Nvidia Binary Drivers Unusably Bad |
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| After using an AMD GPU for many years I've been forced into using an Nvidia card due to the current GPU situation and I am having some major usability issues. Performance is unpredictable with it being usable at times and totally unacceptable at others. Full screen video from Amazon or Netflix results in a black screen. I've also noticed that when my monitors wake up, my due head setup gets mirrored when KDE seems to forget about my other display. Is this normal for the binary drivers? Have they gotten this buggy over the last few years? |
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fedeliallalinea
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Ionen
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Do you mean it suddenly started to work badly in an update, or it never worked right on this setup? It kind of sounds like you're using nouveau or even software-rendering rather than nvidia-drivers.
For instance, using x11-apps/mesa-progs, what does glxinfo | grep vendor say? Should be showing NVIDIA if drivers are used and acceleration works. |
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KWhat
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| Ionen wrote: | Do you mean it suddenly started to work badly in an update, or it never worked right on this setup? It kind of sounds like you're using nouveau or even software-rendering rather than nvidia-drivers.
For instance, using x11-apps/mesa-progs, what does glxinfo | grep vendor say? Should be showing NVIDIA if drivers are used and acceleration works. |
They have worked reasonably well in the past, but this setup has never worked right after switching to nvidia. This configration works right sometimes, for a little while and then I basically have to reboot at least once a day. I never setup nouveau which has never worked for me and the reason I switched to AMD years ago.
I am seeing some MTRR uncacheable stuff but I do not have a bios option for MTRR (Gigabyte Aorus x570) and I have enabled remapping in the kernel as suggested in https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NVIDIA/nvidia-drivers Im not sure if I have the MTRR cleanup spare reg num setup correctly, the wiki is really unclear on what that reg number should be set to.
The card in question is 08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] (rev a1)
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# sudo cat /proc/mtrr
reg00: base=0x000000000 ( 0MB), size= 2048MB, count=1: write-back
reg01: base=0x080000000 ( 2048MB), size= 1024MB, count=1: write-back
reg02: base=0x0bd320000 ( 3027MB), size= 64KB, count=1: uncachable
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Processor type and features --->
[*] MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support
[*] MTRR cleanup support
(0) MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)
(1) MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)
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# glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
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# glxinfo | grep vendor
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
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