Image garbled,Freeze in Firefox and other apps in Gnome-Shell. Important!

[deepclutch]

Image Freezing and rendering issue in Gnome-shell with Nvidia GPU is faced from Day1. however, with nouveau open source driver, this issue is not present.
At Nvidia Forums, this bug is finally is checked and We need more feedback. I hope more people collaborate.

IMPORTANT:
People facing this issue with image rendering in browser and other applications, Kindly register with http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/ and Help the Nvidia developer Hopefully fix this bug ASAP. Nvidia Developer is Listening.
link: post in this thread:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2550776
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/show...6&postcount=27

We may need more people who faces this bug to give more inputs. Note that irrespective of distro this issue is prevalent. be it Ubuntu,Fedora or Debian.

This issue is crippling Gnome-Shell experience from Day 1. Hopefully it will be fixed this time.
Sample:

I am using Gnome3 with Debian Testing. Upgraded to Gnome3 recently.

Gnome3 is working Fine. I have Nvidia drivers also installed and working fine.

The Problem is, with some Applications particularly applications like Shotwell,Eye of Gnome(eog) etc, if I zoom in or out a image, it gets stuck and stay like that until I do anything like moving mouse to the "Activites" corner or launching another application etc etc.

Below is a screenshot with eog loading a image, when I tried zoom out the image. Look at the word "Haq" which is rendered garbled :
http://i42.tinypic.com/dpetg9.png

The Problem with Iceweasel(Firefox) browser is almost nearing unusable state. the pages gets garbled sometimes if I scroll through them.
eg:
I was adding a Youtube video to a forum thread elsewhere, and then Iceweasel acted as expected. garbled in the sense, I meant misaligned page! below screenshot was taken when I submitted the video to the forum thread and waited for the page reloading. this kind of performance degradation remains for even 10seconds in Iceweasel with Gnome3. see the circled area.

http://i39.tinypic.com/29wa3wl.png

After a Suggestion, I tried upgrading mutter window manager to 3.2.x and gnome-shell and allieds also is currently at 3.2.x from Debian unstable repository.

While, in Gnome "Fallback" Mode and with Compiz also, Applications render images,pages correctly and smoothly.

Someone Hints issue may be with "mutter" window manager or "clutter" opengl library Gnome3 is based on?

What May be the Reason. Help needed. Even if I can understand what packages are causing this problem, I can send a Bug report to Debian upstream packaging team regarding this.

Thanks In Advance

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=72358

This is a debian/ubuntu issue only, as co-maintainer for the rpmfusion nvidia driver I've seen no reports of this issue reported at bugzilla or here at fedoraforum.

[deepclutch]

since it is a binary driver, I thought this bug is valid for all distros. someone using Fedora and Nvidia Geforce 7300/7600 series may confirm. the problem IMO is present with a minority of Geforce GPU users, hence hard to find Bug reports.

[bob]

I am using Gnome3 with Debian Testing. Upgraded to Gnome3 recently.

Moved to Linux Chat as not Fedora-related. Also, please read the Posting Rules about excessive color/font sizes.

[mmix]

nvidia didn't work fine with gnome-shell, maybe both are problem.

BTW, nvidia with XFCE 4.10 works fine.

[DBelton]

Originally Posted by deepclutch

since it is a binary driver, I thought this bug is valid for all distros. someone using Fedora and Nvidia Geforce 7300/7600 series may confirm. the problem IMO is present with a minority of Geforce GPU users, hence hard to find Bug reports.

I am using a Geforce 7300 GT with the Nvidia drivers and have had no issues with F15-F17. I have gone back to the nouveau drivers since the Nvidia drivers didn't really gain me anything on my system here, though.

Has anybody thought that the issue might be with Gnome Shell and NOT the nvidia drivers, though?

[deepclutch]

Originally Posted by DBelton

I am using a Geforce 7300 GT with the Nvidia drivers and have had no issues with F15-F17. I have gone back to the nouveau drivers since the Nvidia drivers didn't really gain me anything on my system here, though.

Has anybody thought that the issue might be with Gnome Shell and NOT the nvidia drivers, though?

I got a reply from a Gnome developer that the issue is with Nvidia driver.

@DBelton: I will install Fedora and verify whether the issue is persistent in Fedora+Gnome-shell.

[deepclutch]

Originally Posted by Yellowman

This is a debian/ubuntu issue only, as co-maintainer for the rpmfusion nvidia driver I've seen no reports of this issue reported at bugzilla or here at fedoraforum.

Installed Nvidia proprietary driver on Fedora 17 from rpmfusion yum repository and the problem exists in Fedora also. so, it is Valid info.

it is acknowledged as a issue of Nvidia driver not Gnome-Shell.

[deepclutch]

There is a solution as it seems to work for Me in Fedora 17 now:

Try restarting gnome-shell with:

CLUTTER_PAINT=disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling gnome-shell --replace

and if it works:

To leave the base X11 files untouched one could create a new separate executable file with this HACK like this:

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/10-clutter-hack.sh

#!/bin/sh
export CLUTTER_PAINT=disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720605#c39


source:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/show...2&postcount=32
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/show...2&postcount=33

Please verify if anyone faces garbling with nvidia proprietary driver on gnome-shell.