Video issues

hirax · 2017-07-30 22:40

Hello again
My "adventures" with Q4OS are continuing
From the beginning.
I installed Q4OS Orion 64-bit on Thinkpad T61
During installation created user, lets call him "admin" and later I created new user, lets call him regular-user.
I have problem with admin account and regular user dont have any problems.
Problem is picture "tearing-wobbling" (not exactly correct words but closest)
Feels to me that admin user have some issue with monitor refresh rate.
Mostly it happens when scrolling up and down webpages and when I click Start -> Turn off and then dialog box appeared and backround must be slowly and smootly from top to down convert black and white. In my admin case the picture converts roughly and by fluttering. During webpages scrolling there appears horizontal foggy line. Sorry, I dont know how exactly describe it, but I hope You understand what I meaning.
I also made video about it, converted it by vlc but it still to large for attachment (about 30 Mb)
So I attached some screenshots during screen converting to black and white .
pic1
pic2
pic3
Sometimes picture "tearing" reduces when I log off and restart XServer from log-in screen.
I dont remeber when this "tearing" happened first time. Was it before creating another user or happened it after that. I even deleted second user (no result, same "tearing") and recreated again. All symptoms still same. Admin has screen "tearing" and regular user dont have any problems.
My T61 laptop has nvidia video card and at the moment nvidia driver is in use. I removed nvidia drivers - no success, "tearing" still persist. So I installed nvidia drivers again (from software centre)
So I started look around and started compare hidden configuration files in home folders of both users.
Files: .nvidia-settings-rc, .xsettingsd, .Xresources, .xcompmgrrc are identical for both user.
File .xsesssion-errors in admin home folder is full of "BadWindow" errors. Same file for regular user has much less same erros (mabye because at the moment admin account is more in use on laptop)
I did google search about this error but didnt understand anything from search results
Also found one weird thing: From Control Panel -> Pheriperals -> Monitor refresh rate is 50Hz and no more frequencies from drop-down menu.
From Nvidia Server settins -> XServer Display Configuration and here is refresh rate 60Hz and from drop-down menu is availible options only 60Hz and Auto. 60Hz is selected. So with wich frequency my monitor is actually working ??
Also noticed that when NVIDIA X Server Settings are launced from terminal, then in terminal messages appeared. They all are same:

Package xorg-server was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xorg-server.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xorg-server' found

What that means ?? Synaptic search returns me that package xorg-server-source is not installed. Must I install it ??

More weird things. From terminal, ~$ nvidia-detect output is:

Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G86M [Quadro NVS 140M] [10de:0429] (rev a1)
Your card is supported by the default drivers and legacy driver series 304.
It is recommended to install the
    nvidia-driver

How understand about this ?? That my nvidia driver is not properly installed or what ??

What to do next ?? How fix this picture "tearing" ?? I am pretty sure, that somewhere is some cofiguration mismatch, because regular user dont have same "tearing" problems. It must mean that hardware is capable to work correctly.

Additional info.
Fragment from xsession-errors file:

X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 20
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x4c00008
[ 7195.86 ] error 3 BadWindow request 20 minor 0 serial 1008170: "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"
[ 7195.86 ] error 3 BadWindow request 15 minor 0 serial 1008171: "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"
[ 7202.51 ] error 3 BadWindow request 20 minor 0 serial 1012042: "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"
[ 7202.51 ] error 3 BadWindow request 15 minor 0 serial 1012043: "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"
[ 7209.48 ] error 3 BadWindow request 20 minor 0 serial 1017904: "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"
[ 7209.48 ] error 3 BadWindow request 15 minor 0 serial 1017905: "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"
[ 7211.86 ] error 3 BadWindow request 20 minor 0 serial 1023308: "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"
[ 7211.86 ] error 3 BadWindow request 15 minor 0 serial 1023309: "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"
[ 7211.87 ] error 3 BadWindow request 20 minor 0 serial 1023365: "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"
[ 7211.87 ] error 3 BadWindow request 15 minor 0 serial 1023366: "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"

My etc/X11/xorg.conf file:

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 340.46 (pbuilder@zam904) Fri Oct 17 21:29:34 UTC 2014
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "QDS"
HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0
VertRefresh 59.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "Quadro NVS 140M"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "metamodes" "1280x800 +0+0"
Option "SLI" "Off"
Option "MultiGPU" "Off"
Option "BaseMosaic" "off"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

I am sorry If I do not express myself clearly, this is because English is not my native language

crosscourt · 2017-07-31 01:04

The T61 has a long history of issues with the Nvidia GPU that arent directly related to Linux as its also with Windows. Its an issue with the actual chipset being used and Lenovo is aware of the issue. Sometimes it will boot but you get a variety of artifacts and video issues, others wont boot at all.
If you Google the issues with the T61 Nvidia gpu problems many articles are available.

Dont have enough experience with the T61 to comment any further but have worked with it in Windows and issues came and went during different sessions with different users.

Last edited by crosscourt (2017-07-31 01:23)

Dai_trying · 2017-07-31 09:26

I have recently acquired a T61 but I have different specs to you, I have an intel graphics card and am having no issues (so far) like you are experiencing.
I have installed Orion with everything working OOTB and will be trying Scorpion hopefully tonight.

crosscourt · 2017-07-31 18:33

He can check with Lenovo to see if anything can be done if this is being caused by a hardware issue.

hirax · 2017-08-05 21:59

So, I started from beginning.
I did new fresh install and so far no same symptoms appear

Dai_trying · 2017-08-05 22:17

Does that mean everything is working correctly now?

crosscourt · 2017-08-06 00:07

Yes I believe he isnt having any issues Dai. Id like to know what he did differently versus his first problem install.

Ive had more luck with the Nouveau drivers versus the Nvidia drivers with older hardware.

Last edited by crosscourt (2017-08-06 00:27)

Dai_trying · 2017-08-06 08:08

At this point I am thinking either an install issue or there had been some other software installed (maybe from an outside source?) which caused this to happen. Either way it's good that it's resolved.

crosscourt · 2017-08-06 17:45

I think in the future we may need to ask people whether theyve installed something outside the normal install from outside sources,

A lot of problems also seem to happen with installs that arent using the full desktop profile.

Dai_trying · 2017-08-06 18:38

I'm guilty on that one as I never use a profile (only basic) when I do an install and just put in what I want afterwards.

crosscourt · 2017-08-06 18:41

I find it easier to install the full desktop and then pull out or add in what I need. Use to be a minimalist but kept finding things that didnt work and never seem to get everything I needed for a reliable install.

hirax · 2017-08-06 20:22

My "case" is vice versa.
First install was made from "live cd image" and from desktop profiler "full install"
Second install was made from "bootable installation CD image" and from desktop profiler "basic install" and after few days I did "full install"
Second install - so far no problem, exept bluetooth file transfer
First install - problems occurred approximately same time when second (regular) user was added to system.

crosscourt · 2017-08-06 22:38

I use the installation cd as well as Ive had issues with the livecd image but always use full desktop profile.

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