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BlueFusion
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The latest Nvidia driver that supports my card is 352.68 (~amd64) which I just tried. Still no wobbly windows or desktop cube  .
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BobWya
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| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| BlueFusion wrote: | | The latest Nvidia driver that supports my card is 352.68 (~amd64) which I just tried. Still no wobbly windows or desktop cube . |
Ah sorry, I feel your pain - about legacy drivers!! My ol' 8800 GTX definitely needs a refresh at some point 
Mind you the Desktop Cube effect appears to be just missing support with Nvidia cards/ drivers at present. I suppose I could bump to the 361 drivers...
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moonchilde
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I think I noted a month(?) or so about some nvidia-driver issues and funky egl issues. I found that running eglgears_x11 worked if opengl was set to X but not nvidia, even though nvidia 355 had full egl support. Now that driver 361 included a vendor neutral GL component, kwin with composite effects using the egl backend started working. sddm also showed up fine. I tried running eglgears_x11 again but still had the same black screen bug issue. Driver 361.18-r1 came out, and now eglgears_x11 works.
I mentioned it because KDE seemed to have disabled the GLX backend once it switched to egl by default, and I was no longer able to select GLX. I thought maybe mesa was somehow taking over nvidia's EGL implementation, but that doesn't seem to be the case and it seems more likely a nvidia bug of some sort since once they went vendor neutral, egl started working. Or, they fixed an egl bug, which was also noted on the 361 release.
The only problem with all this is that while kwin and egl effects all work, I still have no desktop since it all shows up as a black screen. I can still use kwin fine, I can right click and use kwin context menus, but no desktop. The desktop is there, but not visible. If I click the start button, I can see an outline of sorts pop up and disappear. Most every window is displayed properly when using kwin over egl now, the only exception I have found is when using the context menu to set the Desktop Settings for plasma, which shows up black and empty. This leads me to believe that kwin is finding egl but plasma is not. Of course, switching to X's opengl implementation, everything shows up right 
I read somewhere that a nvidia developer noted qt isn't correctly using some stuff. |
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Xywa
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Do you think my topic is related to this problem/post?
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1038956-highlight-.html
Do you think I should recompile some package without gles2?
| Quote: | | As a fellow Gentoo user I would highly recommend against using OpenGL ES for the time being. I’ve tried both with Plasma 5.4 and GLES is just asking for trouble right now. For a much more stable Plasma experience compile without gles2: USE=”-gles2″ for mesa, kwin, qt* |
https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2015/11/the-return-of-kwin_gles/
| Code: | # equery h gles2
* Searching for USE flag gles2 ...
[IP-] [ ] dev-qt/qtdeclarative-5.5.1-r1:5
[IP-] [ ] dev-qt/qtgui-5.5.1:5
[IP-] [ ] dev-qt/qtmultimedia-5.5.1-r2:5
[IP-] [ ] dev-qt/qtopengl-5.5.1:5
[IP-] [ ] dev-qt/qtprintsupport-5.5.1:5
[IP-] [ ] dev-qt/qtquick1-5.5.1-r1:5
[IP-] [ ] dev-qt/qtwidgets-5.5.1-r1:5
[IP-] [ ] kde-apps/kdenlive-15.12.1:5
[IP-] [ ] kde-frameworks/plasma-5.18.0:5/5.18
[IP-] [ ] kde-plasma/kwin-5.5.4:5
[IP-] [ ] media-libs/mesa-11.1.1:0
[IP-] [ ] x11-apps/mesa-progs-8.3.0:0
[IP-] [ ] x11-libs/cairo-1.14.6:0 |
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asturm
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| You did check that sddm is part of the video group? |
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BobWya
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Ironically since I wrote that response I've opened a bug about the issue... dev-qt/qt*:5 - Enhancement: +egl , +opengl USE flags function are quite ambiguous
The tl;dr summary is that if you enable the +gles2 (or +egl) for your dev-qt/*:5 packages then you enable mobile EGL/GLES GL support but also disable all Desktop GL support for all Qt5 applications... Probably not what you want when using the Nvidia proprietary driver (no really you DON'T want this)!!
I chased back the linked, closed bug that were mentioned by a responder to my bug report (see link above)... This issue has been going round in circles since last year (with bug reports linking back to previous bug reports). There is no chance of a sane solution like a +desktopgl USE flag - balancing the egl/gles2 USE flags - being introduced... 
Bob
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Xywa
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Sorry for making a mess, I put my question in the wrong topic.
I have rebuild those package without gles2, system works, but did not solve my problem (black screen with nvidia), which I found are related to xorg-server 1.18.1 and nvidia Optimus:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1038828-highlight-.html
and should be solved with xorg-server 1.18.1-3 |
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BobWya
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| Xywa wrote: | Sorry for making a mess, I put my question in the wrong topic.
I have rebuild those package without gles2, system works, but did not solve my problem (black screen with nvidia), which I found are related to xorg-server 1.18.1 and nvidia Optimus:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1038828-highlight-.html
and should be solved with xorg-server 1.18.1-3 |
Yeah, I just read through that thread.... I use Arch-Linux a bit (it's the OS running on my NAS}... The -3 is equivalent to a Gentoo package revision number _r3 i.e. it's an Arch-Linux only build script revision - for the Upstream version 1.18.1 ... So you'd have copy the changes over from the Arch-Linux PKGBUILD script to the equivalent Gentoo ebuild...
Bob
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