| Summary: | x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers >=350 makes screen soapy (dpi problem?) | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | dtr <presentmeaninvite> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NEEDINFO | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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‘diff -u’ between logs from the currently started server (on 346.96-r1 drivers) and previously started (355.11-r2)
emerge --info nvidia-drivers |
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Created attachment 415932 [details]
emerge --info nvidia-drivers
Thank you for your comprehensive report. To me it sounds like a bug in the software provided upstream or a misconfiguration in your system. I suggest to discuss this problem on a related mailing list, forum or IRC channel. I will close this bug here, because I do not see a relation to the gentoo ebuild or the way gentoo handles this special software package. Please provide more information, if I am wrong. |
Created attachment 415930 [details, diff] ‘diff -u’ between logs from the currently started server (on 346.96-r1 drivers) and previously started (355.11-r2) When I restarted X after upgrading X server and all its modules (@x11-module-rebuild), I got soapy screen, like many vertical bars that made letters’ stems wider or thinner than they should be. I use Terminus as desktop font, so I can clearly see if the picture is wrong. I’ve tried to press the Auto button on my display that, as I remmeber, fixed the issue some years ago, but it didn’t help. I’ve made a picture with GIMP using its interlace filter to help the display calibrate itself, but it didn’t help either. I’ve installed nvidia-drivers 358.09 and 355.11-r2 and both had this problem. Then I downgraded to 346.96-r1 and the problem has gone without even pressing the Auto button. Of course I had removed the nvidia driver (and nvidia_modeset for newer versions that prevented it from being removed) between X server runs. Otherwise it wouldn’t even start, I suppose. I haven’t find any interesting lines in the Xorg.0.log that could point at what the issue might be related to. x11-base/xorg-server 1.17.4 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources 4.0.5