FS#62682 - nVidia 430 and XFCE4 blank session.
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Opened by Matthew Stedman (MattStedman) - Monday, 20 May 2019, 00:27 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Wednesday, 12 June 2019, 04:53 GMT
Opened by Matthew Stedman (MattStedman) - Monday, 20 May 2019, 00:27 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Wednesday, 12 June 2019, 04:53 GMT
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Description: After updating to nVidia 430 after a successful
login using LightDM-GTK XFCE4 shows a blank desktop (no
mouse cursor either). Switching from the session and back
using CTRL-1 & CTRL-7 shows the desktop and everything
works as expected. This is on an Optimus laptop using the
instruction from the wiki to only use the nVidia card and a
dedicated GPU in a desktop.
Additional info: local/lib32-nvidia-utils 430.14-1 NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit) local/libvdpau 1.2-1 Nvidia VDPAU library local/libxnvctrl 430.14-1 NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension local/nvidia 430.14-1 NVIDIA drivers for linux local/nvidia-settings 430.14-1 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver local/nvidia-utils 430.14-1 NVIDIA drivers utilities local/xfce4-session 4.12.1-11 (xfce4) A session manager for Xfce Steps to reproduce: Update to nVidia 430 and use XFCE/LightDM. |
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Closed by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Wednesday, 12 June 2019, 04:53 GMT
Reason for closing: Deferred
Wednesday, 12 June 2019, 04:53 GMT
Reason for closing: Deferred
What annoys me is the fact that this same release is both the Beta, Stable & LTS, so I can't just switch packages easily.
@edit: BTW, I'm not complaining about the Arch packagers. I just find it a little premature the fact that upstream declared their software "stable".
Right now I downgraded to 418.74-4 while I wait for updates from Nvidia.
edit:
Just to add to this I have just installed https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-vulkan/ for version 418.52.07-1 of the drivers to the same result.
further edit:
I have *fixed* the issue by burning my ~/.config/xfce4 folder - xfce now starts as soon as I login but of course I have lost my desktop setup. Not sure if this was coincidental to or caused by the nVidia update - apologies if was the earlier.
As a mitigation for my own setup, I've created a nvidia-418 package (https://github.com/kriansa/PKGBUILDs/tree/master/pkgs/nvidia-418) so if anyone is facing the same issue, you can just use the older nvidia driver.
@Sven: Should we close this one and I can reopen a new one?