[Nixos, Nvidia card, Gnome] After waking from sleep, some of my windows are often glitchy (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 day ago by clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev

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Hey. Starting relatively recently, when I wake from sleep, some windows (mostly the file explorer Gnome Files) are blurry as in the screenshot. Moving the window or passing the cursor over the blurry area often helps, but sometimes I need to close the window and re-open it.

Here are the sections of my various .nix files that look relevant. I'm worried I have a bad video card!

    nvidia.modesetting.enable = true;
    nvidia.powerManagement.enable = false;
    nvidia.open = false;
    nvidia.nvidiaSettings = true;

Below is what looks like the relevant part of my restore from suspend from dmesg. Let me know if I can provide anything else helpful!

[21230.467601] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: TRAP ch 11 [01ff748000 gst-plugin-scan[21807]]
[21230.467613] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC0/PROP trap: 00000020 [RT_HEIGHT_OVERRUN] x = 0, y = 8, format = 37, storage type = 0
[21230.467622] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC1/PROP trap: 00000020 [RT_HEIGHT_OVERRUN] x = 8, y = 8, format = 37, storage type = 0
[21230.467629] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC2/PROP trap: 00000020 [RT_HEIGHT_OVERRUN] x = 16, y = 8, format = 37, storage type = 0
[21230.486521] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: TRAP ch 11 [01ff748000 gst-plugin-scan[21807]]
[21230.486536] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC0/PROP trap: 00000020 [RT_HEIGHT_OVERRUN] x = 0, y = 8, format = 37, storage type = 0
[21230.486548] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC1/PROP trap: 00000020 [RT_HEIGHT_OVERRUN] x = 8, y = 8, format = 37, storage type = 0
[21230.486556] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC2/PROP trap: 00000020 [RT_HEIGHT_OVERRUN] x = 16, y = 8, format = 37, storage type = 0
[21230.505718] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: TRAP ch 11 [01ff748000 gst-plugin-scan[21807]]
[21230.505730] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC0/PROP trap: 00000020 [RT_HEIGHT_OVERRUN] x = 0, y = 8, format = 37, storage type = 0
[21230.505742] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC1/PROP trap: 00000020 [RT_HEIGHT_OVERRUN] x = 8, y = 8, format = 37, storage type = 0
[21230.505752] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC2/PROP trap: 00000020 [RT_HEIGHT_OVERRUN] x = 16, y = 8, format = 37, storage type = 0
[21234.024015] logitech-djreceiver 0003:046D:C537.0003: Unexpected input report number 128
[21234.029073] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: TRAP ch 12 [01ff709000 .kgx-wrapped[21863]]
[21234.029088] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC1/TPC2/MP trap: global 00000000 [] warp 3d0016 []
[21234.036492] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: TRAP ch 12 [01ff709000 .kgx-wrapped[21863]]
[21234.036506] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC2/TPC3/MP trap: global 00000000 [] warp 3e0016 []
[21234.104020] logitech-djreceiver 0003:046D:C537.0003: Unexpected input report number 128
[21237.439351] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: TRAP ch 12 [01ff709000 .kgx-wrapped[21863]]
[21237.439364] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC2/TPC1/MP trap: global 00000000 [] warp 3c0016 []
[21243.107011] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 00000004 [INVALID_VALUE] ch 2 [01ffb9c000 vivaldi-bin[2820]] subc 0 class c197 mthd 0804 data 343ef401
[21243.107029] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 00000004 [INVALID_VALUE] ch 2 [01ffb9c000 vivaldi-bin[2820]] subc 0 class c197 mthd 0804 data 343ef001
[21243.121826] pcieport 0000:00:1c.7: AER: Correctable error message received from 0000:05:00.0
[21243.121838] rtl8821ae 0000:05:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Correctable, type=Physical Layer, (Receiver ID)
[21243.121840] rtl8821ae 0000:05:00.0:   device [10ec:8812] error status/mask=00000001/00006000
[21243.121842] rtl8821ae 0000:05:00.0:    [ 0] RxErr                  (First)

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[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The Nixos Wiki is often annoyingly confusing and/or out of date. I built my config based on the wiki but options are introduced in different sections and it isn't clear which ones are supposed to be used together. Maybe I'll bother the wiki maintainers on Matrix.

I'm not "intentionally" using either driver version, so I'm happy to switch!

https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/common/gpu/nvidia/pascal/default.nix

Only lists two option lines. Trying that now.

  # The open source driver does not support Pascal GPUs.
  hardware.nvidia.open = false;
  hardware.nvidia.package = lib.mkDefault config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.legacy_580;

Well this is confusing. I added it set to true because sometimes the system doesn't respond to input when it's suspended and I need to reboot. Wonder if it's contributing. I'll leave it on for now, and turn it off once I've tried the two liner above for a few days.

Graphical corruption and system crashes on suspend/resume powerManagement.enable = true can sometimes fix this, but is itself unstable and is known to cause suspend issues. hardware.nvidia.powerManagement.enable = true can also sometimes fix this issue; it is false by default.

I'm running an Nvidia GTX 1070 (10th gen, Pascal) and I hadn't remembered my system being that old! I don't remember when I bought it, and I guess it's too late to do anything about it now. Though maybe I can still get a previous-gen AMD card at a not too-outrageous price and have a big upgrade.

From lspci:

[nix-shell:~]$ sudo lshw -c video
[sudo] password for clay: 
  *-display                 
       product: nouveaudrmfb
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       logical name: /dev/fb0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom fb
       configuration: depth=32 driver=nouveau latency=0 resolution=3840,1600
       resources: irq:138 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff

[-] petrichornetrainfall@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

You are 100% right about thr wiki, and it doesnt help that there's an unofficial wiki that pops up in search results too. And the wiki it especially out of date and confusing for nvidia. Its a known problem, and a bunch of "high level" contributers complain about it in discorse threads all the time.

You linked "nixos-hardware" repo, so you've obviously done your homework. If youre not importing that as a flake, and importing the "common-gpu-nvidia" (or whatever the module is actually exposed as, thats just the pathing) modules, and instead grabbing the values manually, then you also need to grab the ones from here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/common/gpu/nvidia/default.nix

Your gpu is too old to be includes in the cuttoff that nvidia did when starting to open source their drivers, but i wouldn't say its too old to be usable or anything.

The wiki is out of date when they say power Management is experimental and unstable, I recommend setting that to true.

I think the main problem is using nouveau drivers, and setting the option provided in the link above should switch that to their closed source drivers. If you make that change, definitely do a rebuild boot instead of switch, and then reboot into the new Gen.

Its so annoying thag theres open (nouveau), open (nvidia - but only newer gpus), and closed (nvidia). There's been a lot of talk about making major changes to the nixos nvidia configuration settings, but there's a lot of conflicting ideas about how to improve them so it hasn't made much progress.

And apologizes for any weird formatting, especially around option names, on my phone.

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago

I appreciate the common tip; I'll add that.

My rebuild switch reboot seems to be working fine, so I'll see what happens...

Thanks for the time to spent trying to help me!

[-] petrichornetrainfall@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago

Im glad to hear that! Whenever I have changes for nvidia, I always need to "rebuild boot" and reboot, but that might be because I use "open = true" or because how I have home-manager setup.

No problem! I've been in a similar situation if you couldn't tell lol, I hope the changes work out!

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