Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

[Topcat]

I've been diddling around with Mint 19.1 Cinnamon...and have gotten a strange artifact issue.



It's being pretty mild there, many times its rendering windows illegible.

System specs are
X8DAL motherboard w 2x Westmere CPU's
24gb RAM
Quadro FX5800 4gb

I thought at first the GPU was simply bad, so I swapped it for another (I have several of these), result was the same. I then booted it into Windows 7, everything is hunky dory within Windows, but FUBAR with linux....I know, go figure....but its a bit annoying.

[CapLeaker]

Re: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

I've got the same thing once in a while only on one computer. It isn't there all the time on mine. On my laptop it works fine as kind for some reason.
The computer that has the same artifact is a ASUS Maximus VIII, Intel 6600k, 16GB Ram, SSD and a Nvidia 1050, dual screen setup. It happens on my second screen, while I scroll something on my first screen.

The Asus laptop which Mint works fine on is a 4770K, 20GB Ram, SSD, Nvidia 860m.
What gives?!

[stj]

Re: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

who's driver, Nvidia, or the open-source one?

[CapLeaker]

Re: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

Nvidia drivers on mine.

[Topcat]

Re: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

It's whatever came with Mint. I haven't tried others <yet>....Hard to imagine an embedded driver for such an old card being buggy.....but I guess there's a reason it's 'free'.

[CapLeaker]

Re: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

probably the open source driver.

the last update from Manjaro killed the USB 3 port on my other lappy. Ugh!

[stj]

Re: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

usb3 uses a microcontroller for speed,
they need firmware.

same as the nvidia problem, most distro's cant/wont include 3rd party binary's in the iso's - you have to add them after install.

[Topcat]

Re: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

I'll try the nvidia driver and see what that does...

[CapLeaker]

Re: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

NVIDIA driver didn't help me any...

[Topcat]

Re: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

In 'driver manager', I switched it from the default open source driver to nvidia driver 340.107, that seems to have got it....but I'll diddle around with it some more before I call it cured.