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Hardware - Support => Video Cards => Topic started by: mohaa951 on July 17, 2018, 05:31:42 PM

Title: screen flicker - nvidia
Post by: mohaa951 on July 17, 2018, 05:31:42 PM

Hi all. I'm new to the forms and fairly new to using Linux. I have Lite installed on an older laptop, running Nvidia graphics and I get a bad/unusable flicker when I open graphic intense applications (ie game), or even certain browsers (Vivaldi).. In any browser, google maps will also trigger this flicker.
 I've tried the workarounds I've seen such as using CompizConfig's workaround  "Force full screen redraws (buffer swap) on repaint" but no luck..
I've tried all three of the drivers shown in the screenshot but same issue.

Title: Re: screen flicker - nvidia
Post by: mohaa951 on July 24, 2018, 05:35:29 PM

Thoughts anyone?

Title: Re: screen flicker - nvidia
Post by: firenice03 on July 24, 2018, 10:51:49 PM

Quote from: mohaa951 on July 24, 2018, 05:35:29 PM

Thoughts anyone?

These may help get you in the right direction...
https://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/hardware.html#graphics

https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/video-cards/geforce-8200m-g-linux-lite-3-8/msg39533/#msg39533

Title: Re: screen flicker - nvidia
Post by: kpanic on July 25, 2018, 02:51:14 PM

Hi,

You "tried all three drivers", I assume 'nouveau' was one of them?

Modern, graphics intensive software won't run well on old hardware

Title: Re: screen flicker - nvidia
Post by: mohaa951 on August 04, 2018, 09:24:56 PM

As just an update. I followed the steps via command line to uninstall the display driver, reboot and reinstall the Nvidia legacy driver. This seems to have resolved the issue. Thanks for the support!