fine-tuning nvidia 304 driver/ GeForce 7025 - black flashes
by tpprynn from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5E559)
My homebuilt PC's Radeon card died on me a week ago, probably because of the cold, going by the winter behaviour of a couple of laptops here over the years. I had a couple of days' struggle trying to get its built-in onboard nVidia going - it uses the discontinued 304 driver which my distro, Debian, dispensed with last edition. So I have installed Debian 9 Xfce and despite quite a stressful-feeling bunch of hours things are mostly fine. When I open Firefox most noticeably the window flashes to black first, and there are a couple of other glitchy-looking things, nothing as bad as with the Nouveau driver using Debian 10 or 9. (Synaptic also - both I think being two of the few applications I have that use a gtk3 theme, where I've selected the gtk2 theme Mist). I've looked at the 304 driver's UI and it's a pretty bland set of settings really, whereas my Intel-based laptops have three or so settings that can make a difference, like 'Triplebuffer' and 'DRI'.
I've paused from using Redshift also as with the nVidia driver it's either weirdly bright cursors all day or software cursors that freeze badly and vanish. Redshift has been a godsend for someone who has slept badly for years the card may still get replaced later.
This is a GeForce 7025/ nForce 630a. I might even have had this machine a decade now, and parts of it go back fourteen years. The Asus card that died was its newest part. As a non-gamer using a fairly light version of Linux nothing otherwise about this computer bothers me, so if anyone is running this driver and knows it and its issues well I wouldn't mind seeing for example the relevant part of your xorg.conf or anything else that might help.
(from inxi)
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a]
bus-ID: 00:0d.0 chip-ID: 10de:03d6
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: nvidia
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a/integrated/SSE2
GLX Version: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 304.137 Direct Rendering: Yes
(the relevant bit of a so far probably unnecessary xorg.conf)
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:0:13:0"
EndSection
Maybe things are as good as they get, if so then fine. It's old and cheap and the glitches are momentary signs of this, not deal-breaker-level. On the other hand a line or two to the configuration might show that there was just something to attend to.
Thanks in advance.
I've paused from using Redshift also as with the nVidia driver it's either weirdly bright cursors all day or software cursors that freeze badly and vanish. Redshift has been a godsend for someone who has slept badly for years the card may still get replaced later.
This is a GeForce 7025/ nForce 630a. I might even have had this machine a decade now, and parts of it go back fourteen years. The Asus card that died was its newest part. As a non-gamer using a fairly light version of Linux nothing otherwise about this computer bothers me, so if anyone is running this driver and knows it and its issues well I wouldn't mind seeing for example the relevant part of your xorg.conf or anything else that might help.
(from inxi)
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a]
bus-ID: 00:0d.0 chip-ID: 10de:03d6
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: nvidia
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a/integrated/SSE2
GLX Version: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 304.137 Direct Rendering: Yes
(the relevant bit of a so far probably unnecessary xorg.conf)
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:0:13:0"
EndSection
Maybe things are as good as they get, if so then fine. It's old and cheap and the glitches are momentary signs of this, not deal-breaker-level. On the other hand a line or two to the configuration might show that there was just something to attend to.
Thanks in advance.