nVidia drivers in Linux - my day #1 experience

I use a Intel i5-2500K + nVidia GTX 1060 in my primary system. And, an AMD A8-3870K + Radeon HD 6950 in my secondary system.

I'm running nVidia 381.22 driver on Arch Linux.

The issues I'm facing:

1) Alt + Print Screen (for only current Window screenshot) saves with weird colours. Print Screen (for whole screen) works fine.

I have attached the screenshots for you guys to see.

2) Experienced a couple of lockups when I was streaming two HD videos in chromium simultaneously.

My experience with Radeon in Linux, thanks to the open-source drivers has been flawless. Sure, the Radeon open-source drivers offer only 85-90% of the Windows performance, but the thing is, they are flawless in Linux.

You know, digit looks much better with that color scheme. Thanks Nvidia..

Nerevarine said:
You know, digit looks much better with that color scheme. Thanks Nvidia..

tbh, yes.

Nvidia sucks on Linux. I'm using the same driver on arch and my fps in CSGO / Dots never go above 50 while I get 70 in Windows. This is around 30% less performance. AMD seems much better in performance too!

I have been using nvidia proprietary drivers on Linux for more than 1 year now and I have not observed any performance drops whatsoever in all the games that I have played. At least not in any Valve games. There is some minor stutters in Serious Sam Fusion sometimes but that is mostly because that is in beta.

ico said:
I use a Intel i5-2500K + nVidia GTX 1060 in my primary system. And, an AMD A8-3870K + Radeon HD 6950 in my secondary system.

I'm running nVidia 381.22 driver on Arch Linux.

The issues I'm facing:

1) Alt + Print Screen (for only current Window screenshot) saves with weird colours. Print Screen (for whole screen) works fine.

I have attached the screenshots for you guys to see.

2) Experienced a couple of lockups when I was streaming two HD videos in chromium simultaneously.

My experience with Radeon in Linux, thanks to the open-source drivers has been flawless. Sure, the Radeon open-source drivers offer only 85-90% of the Windows performance, but the thing is, they are flawless in Linux.

Which Linux are you using? Perhaps this is a problem with X and not with the driver.

Desmond David said:
Which Linux are you using? Perhaps this is a problem with X and not with the driver.

Arch Linux.

Which DE?
Also have you tried taking a screenshot using scrot?

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Desmond David said:
Which DE?
Also have you tried taking a screenshot using scrot?

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Using GNOME.

Printscreen works fine. Alt + Printscreen has that colour balance issue.

Will see what scrot does.

Gnome uses gnome-screenshot for screenshots AFAIK. That discoloration is probably a bug in gnome-screenshot.
Also I think scrot only takes fullscreen screenshots.
Another good alternative I know of is ImageMagick. Haven't used this one though.

Edit:
Confirmed bug: Bug #1089069 “When taking a screenshot sometimes the image will ...” : Bugs : gnome-screenshot package : Ubuntu

Desmond David said:
Gnome uses gnome-screenshot for screenshots AFAIK. That discoloration is probably a bug in gnome-screenshot.
Also I think scrot only takes fullscreen screenshots.
Another good alternative I know of is ImageMagick. Haven't used this one though.

Edit:
Confirmed bug: Bug #1089069 “When taking a screenshot sometimes the image will ...” : Bugs : gnome-screenshot package : Ubuntu

Dunno man, never faced this problem on HD 6950 + Arch Linux.

Probably gnome-screenshot does not utilize the Nvidia driver correctly? Otherwise, you could try the Nouveau open source drivers.

Desmond David said:
Otherwise, you could try the Nouveau open source drivers.

They are rubbish for Pascal currently. I doubt even startx works with it.

Pascal Is Now Supported By The Nouveau X.Org Driver - Phoronix