| Summary: | gnome-shell + nvidia drivers => black windows | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Iñigo Serna <inigoserna> |
| Component: | gnome-shell | Assignee: | Owen Taylor <otaylor> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 15 | CC: | maurizio.antillon, maxamillion, otaylor, pavel1r, samkraju, sibi.antony, walters |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-06-10 09:15:09 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Iñigo Serna
2011-05-27 11:44:47 UTC
I've been testing many things last couple of days, no luck.
I've also been looking carefully at many logs: /var/log/{Xorg.0.log, messages audit/audit.log}, .xsessions-errors, dmesg and glxinfo output... Everything seems correct, no errors.
If you need them I can attach the logs.
Here, another bug I think related to this one: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707650
Excuse me for the monologue, but I think I've found something... it looks there are some problems with xorg 1.10 and nvidia drivers 270.x when using KDE and transparency, maybe it's related with the issue I have. More info: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=bb5e2c560fac5d864d470bc8f01bda04&t=162133 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23381 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/760632 I have the same problem, but with the nouveau drivers. Installed Fedora 15 (Default DVD media), and once I login to Gnome 3, I get a black screen with 'patches' everywhere. My display card is an integrated nvidia GeForce 6150. I doubt if it is due to the desktop effects ? Is there any way to turn the effects from command line? I also have an integrated GeForce 6150, my motherboard is a ASUS M2NPV-VM. But in my case, it doesn't run GNOME 3, always goes to fallback mode, showing the next error: [ 41.268] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): Error creating GPU channel: -16 [ 41.269] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): Error initialising acceleration. Falling back to NoAccel Did you do something special? Anyway, I've read many reports with compositing/transparency errors with xorg 1.10 and nvidia drivers 270.x, so I think there are some bugs there at least. Iñigo: After a couple of reboots I realized that the problem occurs only once in a while. Whenever I'm logging into GNOME, if I hover my mouse around, there is a good chance that I hit the problem. On other cases (If I leave the mouse as is), the login happens just fine, and GNOME 3 is running too. I've never tried nvidia binaries, but I think there could be problems to be addressed in Xorg/GNOME 3 ? I cannot access terminal/logs whenever the problem happens, so cannot attach any logs to look for any clues.. I have same problem. With nouveau, I experienced screen corruption sometimes, and decided to try nvidia drivers. With them, I also see a background and a top bar, but nothing else is drawn. I installed KDE and it works in this configuration, so, I guess, the problem is on Gnome's side. I've solved my original problem, so I will close the case. I'm not completely sure about what happened but it looks like a bug of nvidia propietary drivers with last version 1.10 of xorg-server. In my case, after lots of hours testing I finally got gnome-shell work without those "black windows". My graphics card is a GeForce 6150 embedded on an Asus M2NPV-VM mother board. I took a look at BIOS and saw a setting called "Frame buffer size for onboard graphic", whose value was 32MB, I changed it to the maximum, 256MB, and gnome-shell works now. Note that with Fedora 14's gnome-shell (xorg 1.9, nvidia 260.x) it worked. Anyway, nVidia has reproduced the issue (and other regarding screen corruption) on their labs and they are working in a fix. More info on: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=72d8d925972ec2f4349bcef979adcf70&p=2443529&posted=1#post2443529 Thus, closing the case. Iñigo |