Okey, have been trying out different things for a while, ending up extracting the driver archive and manually patching. Since it patched the file, someone else who ended up like me might be interested in my diff. I can not (yet) verify if it works though. (Note that it should be a new line on line 17).
Opensuse 11.4 (with evergreen support, still my primary system) KDE 4.6.00 / 3.0.80-52-desktop i686
→ when I login it pauses a long while, then just black screen with cursor shows up (i can hear the desktop welcome sound even so i think KDE plasma desktop crashed unrecoverably)
When I kill KDE (ctrl+alt+backspace) and relog without reboot I can get into desktop even on 11.4 and all looks good so far. Next time i reboot same happens 1st login.
Opensuse 12.3 works flawless
I will have to investigate a bit more. After driver 313.30 I already had some effects on KDE e.g. plasma crashed or amarok when desktop showed up, but a) it recovered / restarted and b) I could work around the crashes by waiting 1 minute after login prompt shows up before me logging in and everything worked fine - so it can be related to 11.4 / my installation of it
Edit: No need for the patch. I managed to make it work. :D
Because of multi-modul thing, licence hack needs to be applied in “nv-frontend.c” file. This file is now used for single module systems, and “nv.c” is used for multi-modul system.
Can we have your system specs/OS version please
And any extra steps you have taken?
Can I recreate this with a fresh install and get a tear free desktop/games?
Ubuntu 13.04 64bit and NVIDIA GT640 graphics.
I can’t see any teering on that video. I actualy never had any teering in videos. Only if I have tvtime opened in background and I scroll pages in Firefox, then I get teering on the web pages.
I applied a patch from here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=210771
and then I extracted the created custom .run package and edited the nv.c and nv-frontend.c files from:
Licence “NVIDIA” to Licence “GPL”.
Since my last post. Gave Xubuntu 13.04 64bit another shot with a fresh install.
No external monitor/dual.
Laptop with nvidia 680m gpu / Intel i7 2630qm cpu
It got slightly better but tearing is still there. Best case was when I updated the system and applied 331.13 from ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa with no old tweaks or compiz.
The video is mostly stable, sometimes tearing happens at the bottom edge if I leave it alone. As soon as I hover my mouse over the video … severe tearing.
You are using Xubuntu, that’s the problem, because Xubuntu doesn’t have OpenGl compositor, it relies on Xrender compositor which doesn’t support vsync.
Switch to a distro which DE have a compositor, like Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is only a sugestion, you can try others. Also if you like to stick with xubuntu, try compton compositor. There’s a PPA for it and instruction on how to use it.
I’ve tried and I had good results with it.
It’s running great, the only problem is it’s running hot:
[i]$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +56.0°C (crit = +102.0°C)
temp2: +37.0°C (crit = +96.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +57.0°C (high = +95.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 2: +56.0°C (high = +95.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
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I’ve tried installing bumblebee, but I can’t get it working. Not complaining, it’s not the new drivers’ fault. My lappy has been running hot forever. Why I tried the new drivers in the first place.
I am not experiencing tearing, but with my GTX 465 I get a blurry screen with kde(currently 4.11.1) with the openGL compositor. I don’t have a problem with 325.15.