I updated my Dell Precision 5540 firmware today with sudo fwupdmgr update.
The update was to 0.1.6.0 and it fetched from fwupd.org
The laptop uses a hybrid graphics setup and has an Nvidia quadro T2000 that is not enabled.
I noticed that now in certain 3rd party applications such as signal, typora, slack etc. I now have incredibly bad screen tearing and also strange horizontal lines on the dropdowns.
I do not think issue is not related to my Nvidia graphics driver but rather the integrated Intel graphics.
Below is some info I think could help:
lspci -nn | egrep -i "3d|display|vga"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3e9b] (rev 02) 01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:1fb8] (rev a1)
inxi -G
Graphics: Card-1: Intel Device 3e9b Card-2: NVIDIA Device 1fb8 Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) driver: intel Resolution: 3840x2160@60.00hz OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Coffeelake 3x8 GT2) version: 4.5 Mesa 19.2.8
contents of my grub file
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""1 Answer
I tried several fixes to this...
- upgrading mesa
- adding
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers - trying to disable built-in graphics in UEFI (not possible on my model)
- purged intel and nividia drivers and started over
- installing nVidia drivers manually both open source and proprietary
- tried bumblebee
- reverted firmware
- forcing nvidia card on
In the end I did a dist upgrade to 19.10 which fixed the issue. Not ideal leaving LTS but whatever graphic drivers were included fixed my issue.
