FS#47172 - [nvidia] Screen scrolls upwards repeatedly when using NVIDIA driver 355 onwards, computer unusable

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by John Ramsden (STREBLO) - Wednesday, 25 November 2015, 08:19 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Friday, 11 December 2015, 17:01 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Ionut Biru (wonder)
Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
After updating to driver 355, upon rebooting my screen what do a strange flicker where the entire screen seem to scroll upwards repeatedly and this does not stop even after a few minutes. I also tried updating to the newer version 358 recently and the same problem happened. I ended up having to downgrade to earlier driver version 352 that works. I included a video showing the problem. In this state the computer is completely unusable. I am running Arch Linux with kernel 4.1.6-1 and I can't update to a newer version as the newer version requires a newer in video driver.



Additional info:
Card: GeForce GTX 970
* package version(s)
Driver 352.41-1 Is working, anything after that causes the problem



Log files:
Here is the output from my boot after upgrading the driver that has anything to do with NVIDIA:
I included this in a file as long with the entire output from my boot as well as video showing the problem take place.

Nov 24 23:10:04 Archon kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Nov 24 23:10:04 Archon kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 244
Nov 24 23:10:04 Archon kernel: [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20150116 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
Nov 24 23:10:05 Archon kernel: nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 358.16 Mon Nov 16 18:58:09 PST 2015
Nov 24 23:10:05 Archon kernel: nvidia-modeset: Allocated GPU:0 (GPU-072b84c8-3502-12dd-8805-4791d4a457c4) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0




Steps to reproduce:
1. Install nvidia driver version 355 or anything after
2. Reboot
(application/x-gzip)    Report.tar.gz (1.21 MiB)
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Closed by  Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Friday, 11 December 2015, 17:01 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by John Ramsden (STREBLO) - Wednesday, 25 November 2015, 08:23 GMT
I have also submitted this bug to Nvidia

You can watch the video here: http://tinypic.com/r/6joys9/9
Comment by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Thursday, 26 November 2015, 01:18 GMT
Your resources are private. Can you post them to some public location?
Comment by John Ramsden (STREBLO) - Thursday, 26 November 2015, 23:38 GMT
You should be able to download the tar.gz. Is that not public?

I also edited a public video in my comment above.
Comment by Darek (blablo) - Friday, 27 November 2015, 00:25 GMT
@STREBLO Hi, please see: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/522835/linux/if-you-have-a-problem-please-read-this-first/
Comment by John Ramsden (STREBLO) - Saturday, 05 December 2015, 00:00 GMT
I did that, my output was minimal so I didn't post. See file attatched.

Output:
nvidia-bug-report.sh Version: 19462664

Date: Fri Dec 4 15:55:32 PST 2015
uname: Linux Archon 4.1.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 17 08:52:28 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
command line flags:

   nvidia-bug-report.log (0.5 KiB)
Comment by John Ramsden (STREBLO) - Sunday, 06 December 2015, 06:51 GMT
I just found out that this only happens when I'm using my monitor on 4k resolution . if I use the HDMI output that gives me SD it works, but when I switch it to 4k I get the weird rolling action.
Comment by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Friday, 11 December 2015, 17:01 GMT
From the description this definitely sounds like a driver problem. We can't really do anything here but hope that NVIDIA fixes its stuff. Will close for now unless it turns out that we can do something here to fix it.

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