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NVidia card desktop artifacts

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Hello,
I have some strange problem with my Mint 20.1 Mate when I'm trying to move any icon across my desktop it gives strange artifacts. I did not observe such behavior on 19.3. I tried to revert to using older drivers so I switched from the newest 460 to 390 but no dice. I use LTS kernel 5.4.0-71 at the moment.
I've search the almighty interwebz and the only thing I found was some guy having similar problem with his quadro card but he found a workaround using HDMI cable instead of DP. Unfortunately in my case it doesn't matter which cable I use - desktop still glitches.
I tried to show what I mean on this video.
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Help please.
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Re: NVidia card desktop artifacts

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Mr_Sinister wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 6:17 amHelp please.
Please give us information about your install by entering this command in a terminal: inxi -Fxxxrz
Click </> from the mini toolbar above the textbox where you type your reply and then place your cursor between the code markers and paste the results of the command between the code markers [code]Results[/code]. This will let us know how Mint sees your hardware.
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Re: NVidia card desktop artifacts

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Hello,
And just when I thought nobody wants to help me it turns out that, for some reason, I did not get the notification about the reply. Thank you for answering the call. Here's the result:

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System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-72-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
  Desktop: MATE 1.24.0 info: mate-panel wm: marco 1.24.0 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: X570 AORUS ELITE v: -CF 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: X570 AORUS ELITE v: x.x serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F33g date: 03/25/2021 
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M215 2nd Gen 
  serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes 
  status: Discharging 
  Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard K330 
  serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes 
  status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 
  L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 86246 
  Speed: 2196 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 2196 2: 2196 3: 2196 4: 2194 5: 2196 6: 2195 7: 2195 8: 2195 9: 2196 
  10: 2196 11: 2196 12: 2195 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: nvidia v: 460.73.01 bus ID: 07:00.0 chip ID: 10de:13c2 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: nvidia compositor: marco 
  v: 1.24.0 tty: N/A 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.73.01 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GM204 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0fbb 
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 09:00.4 chip ID: 1022:1487 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-72-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: Gigabyte driver: igb 
  v: 5.6.0-k port: f000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 8086:1539 
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-2: virbr0-nic state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 3.72 TiB used: 2.07 TiB (55.6%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: HDWD130 size: 2.73 TiB 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: ACF0 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: HD103SJ size: 931.51 GiB 
  speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 0001 scheme: GPT 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Extreme size: 29.82 GiB 
  serial: <filter> rev: 0001 
  ID-4: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: Patriot model: N/A size: 57.77 GiB 
  serial: <filter> rev: PMAP 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 98.31 GiB used: 22.90 GiB (23.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda9 
  ID-2: /boot size: 479.2 MiB used: 115.4 MiB (24.1%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/sda7 
  ID-3: /home size: 245.95 GiB used: 159.51 GiB (64.9%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/sda8 
  ID-4: swap-1 size: 4.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda11 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 35.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 47 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0% 
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Info:
  Processes: 306 Uptime: 18m Memory: 15.64 GiB used: 2.12 GiB (13.6%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 4.8/5/7/9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: mate-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 
I never mentioned this but apart from the glitches my desktop fonts look really bad although I have subpixel font smoothing on. In desperation I even tried changing RGB order but no dice.
In the meantime there was few kernel updates and nvidia drivers update but unfortunately it did not help.
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Re: NVidia card desktop artifacts

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I'll quote you this time and hopefully you will get a notification someone replied.

There are improvements for 3rd gen Ryzens in the 5.8 kernel which is available in Update Manager. Although you are using Nvidia for graphics, it may be these improvements for your processor will help this situation.

Open Update Manager. Select View > Linux Kernels and click Continue. Make sure 5.8 is selected on the left panel and then click the top-most option on the right panel. An "Install" button will appear. Install the kernel and then reboot for it to become active. Let us know if that helps.

The other suggestion is to not use the oibaf-ppa for graphics. I do not see it in your inxi graphics info, but I noticed it is listed as an active repo. Quite a few people have been having issues related to that PPA recently.
Mr_Sinister wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 8:07 am

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CPU:
  Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 
  L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 86246 
  Speed: 2196 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 2196 2: 2196 3: 2196 4: 2194 5: 2196 6: 2195 7: 2195 8: 2195 9: 2196 
  10: 2196 11: 2196 12: 2195 
Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oibaf-graphics-drivers-focal.list 
  1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/oibaf/graphics-drivers/ubuntu focal main
  2: deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/oibaf/graphics-drivers/ubuntu focal main
I never mentioned this but apart from the glitches my desktop fonts look really bad although I have subpixel font smoothing on. In desperation I even tried changing RGB order but no dice.
In the meantime there was few kernel updates and nvidia drivers update but unfortunately it did not help.
I do not have the MATE desktop, so I do not have any recommendations for how desktop fonts look.
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Re: NVidia card desktop artifacts

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I'm digging up the topic because I wonder if anyone came across the problem I had. Since my last post I tried few kernels from 5.8 line, few from 5.11 and 5.13. I've also upgraded my NVidia drivers few times and the newest ones were 4.90. Despite all of this the glitches and messed up fonts stayed with me for a long time. Not that long ago I did a fresh install of LM 20.03 Cinnamon and it seems to be OK now. I'm using 5.4 kernel and recommended NVidia drivers 4.70. I still don't know what was going on though.
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