#This bs: weird issue with Nvidia drivers on Samsung g9

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soft laurel
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So I’ve been recently transitioning some stuff over from windows to Linux mint, but I notice more often than not I get an effect like this can be only be sorta fixed via a restart. By sorta fixed I mean one of three outcomes can happen:

  1. The issue is entirely fixed and it only sometimes has this affect during that session (common)
  2. No different results are yielded (rarer, but has happened)
  3. It happens still, but less violent/shaky.

This is a really annoying issue overall, got any ideas on how to fix it?

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Also, no, I am not on a plane rn, and no, my pc isn’t an sr-71. Noise isolation is weird on IOS

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And before anyone tells me to switch to open source drivers, there’s one issue: 240hz isn’t available on them

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My specs are as follows:
Nvidia GeForce rtx 4080 super
32gb DDR5 ram
Amd Ryzen 7 7800x3d

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And no, this does not happen on windows or on anything else unless I’m signed in and loaded on my LM boot partition

tiny schooner
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So you have the proprietary nvidia drivers installed?

unkempt depot
soft laurel
soft laurel
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What does elegoo have to do with anything?

unkempt depot
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I remember someone with the same name on the Elegoo Discord.

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You may want to post results from terminal for inxi -Fxxxz; mokutil --sb

soft laurel
tiny schooner
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Sorry, I can't really help here, I just wanted to clarify for others.

soft laurel
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all good

elfin thorn
soft laurel
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And yeah your inxi interpretation is correct, I run a Samsung g9 oled

elfin thorn
# soft laurel Yeah it does. What’s wayland?

The display on modern desktop Linux is still relying on an ancient display server from the 1980s called X11/Xorg. There is a modern replacement called Wayland to enable modern anemities like proper high-resolution multi-screen setups with high, variable and mixed refresh rates. Mint Cinnamon has only experimental Wayland support so far. You activate the Wayland session at login by clicking on the Cinnamon logo next to the login box. It is still a bit buggy, and nvidia support for it is not great, but it may solve this kind of issue. Worth a try, since it costs nothing but a re-login.

soft laurel
elfin thorn
# soft laurel I see, so I can disable it at login?

Not disable. The session you start when you log in graphically is either an X11 session or a Wayland session (or a fallback session to troubleshoot). If you want to switch back, you log out and back in with a different session. It is recommended to reboot after leaving Wayland, to let it fully reset.

soft laurel
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I see, thanks for the valuable information, appreciate you blob_thanks

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I will keep you posted when I get back to my desktop and try that

elfin thorn
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You're welcome, but this is just a workaround. I have no clear idea yet what your issue really is.

soft laurel
elfin thorn
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We are still regularly having many worries with nvidia drivers. If you are unlucky, it is an nvidia bug, which makes it unfixable until nvidia solves it. But we have some more options. I just saw that the 6.11 kernel branch is available now from Update Manager, so you have the option to switch to that (from the default 6.8 branch Mint comes with). But one thing at a time.

soft laurel
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I selected it, but got a black screen and no signs of entry into the system. After a restart, I got this notification.

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one sec, let me send an image

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yeah nvm I can't, something about the ibus though with wayland

elfin thorn
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Too bad. Next time you land yourself with an unresponsive desktop: Ctrl+Alt+Backspace hard-resets Cinnamon and drops you back at login. Only use it for recovery, since it will close all applications and lose unsaved data.
If you want to try that newer kernel, open Update Manager > View > Linux kernels and select the new 6.11 branch for install. It should be used on reboot, but you will retain the old one and can go back to it at any time.

soft laurel
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I may try that new kernel sometime later

elfin thorn
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For now, Wayland support remains experimental. It will be the default on Mint one day, but not before 2026 or even 2027. If it helps with or even solves this issue, I hope it is stable enough for you.

soft laurel
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restarting now

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just got in, no idea why some boots have that issue.

soft laurel
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@elfin thorn just got that distortion issue again with wayland enabled

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the only thing stopping me from switching to open source drivers is there being no support for 240hz

soft laurel
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Well I ended up disabling Wayland since it caused issues with my keyboard and it didn’t solve the issue

elfin thorn
soft laurel
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I don’t think I can hop distros that easy tbh

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do you have any other fixes?

elfin thorn
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Have you tried the 6.11 kernel?

soft laurel