Good evening.
After updating and installing Fedora Workstation 39, many programs began to display incorrectly. For example: Microsoft Edge, Yandex browser, Shortwave. I haven’t checked all the programs. I uploaded a screenshot, what could be wrong? Before the update everything worked fine.
Are you using an nvidia GPU?
If so then you probably have the same issue I did recently. The system-upgrade reboot process does not wait long enough before rebooting to allow the nvidia drivers to be compiled and installed.
You can try to reboot again. If that does not fix it then at the login screen use ctrl-alt-F3 and log in using text mode. Then do the following
sudo dnf remove kmod-nvidia-\*
followed by sudo akmods --force and wait about a minute after that last command completes before rebooting.
If you are not using nvidia GPU and the nvidia drivers then this is not useful.
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Good Evening.
I am using the integrated graphics controller of an AMD Ryzen 7700 processor.
Here is information about GPU:
lspci | grep -E “VGA|3D”`
14:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Raphael (rev c3)
I had similar issue with apps running but doesn’t display in Wayland at all. Can you try if problem will also be visible in Xorg? There was one package that has been pulled out in beta stage of F39. Your system is updated? Try running “dnf distro-sync” and see if there is something that dnf want to revert to older version?
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Thanks for the advice!
The latest updates have been installed.
There was just a problem with Xorg, I switched to GNOME and now the applications launch correctly.
It’s strange that in Fedora 38 all applications worked correctly under Xorg.
Actually gnome is used with both xorg and wayland.
Did you mean that you switched to using gnome on wayland?
We can see that answer with the output of inxi -Gxx to show the graphics config.
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Yes, sorry. I switched to wayland gnome at system startup. You’re right.
Without using the inxi utility, I looked in the settings.
I was having the same kind of issue after doing the latest F38 OS updates.
This my post on this site: Buggy display after updating to latsest 38 patches
My display is all messed up. I am seeing this the most i guess in my emacs sessions since thats what i use the most. Much like the above pic, I get blocks on my emacs window. And worse, the display is not updated as I scroll through documents so parts of previous lines are still displayed where they should be, hightlighting remains on the screen after it would normally disappear, etc.
To the point of making my editing session unusable!
btw: Thanks for the inxi command.
Output of inxi -Gxx:
Device-1: NVIDIA GF116M [GeForce GT 560M] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nouveau
v: kernel arch: Fermi pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: LVDS-1
empty: HDMI-A-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1251 temp: 65.0 C
Device-2: Sunplus Innovation ASUS Webcam driver: uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 4-1.2:4 chip-ID: 1bcf:2885
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9
compositor: gnome-shell v: 44.7 driver: X: loaded: nouveau
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nv dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau
display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: Seiko Epson 0x314c res: 1920x1080 dpi: 142
diag: 395mm (15.5")
API: OpenGL v: 4.3 vendor: mesa v: 23.1.9 glx-v: 1.4 es-v: 3.1
direct-render: yes renderer: NVCF device-ID: 10de:1251 display-ID: :0.0
API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
I will try above suggestions and reboot.
Thanks,
-S
You are using Wayland with the nouveau driver and a GPU that is old enough to only be supported by the nvidia 390xx drivers.
This could be a case of wayland not being appropriate for use with that older GPU.
What happens if you switch to using xorg when you log in? Does the problem disappear?
Note that the original problem was a result of problems with the nvidia driver and a system upgrade – AND – this thread also already shows a solution BEFORE you posted.
Your issue is very different and you really should open your own thread with a topic that identifies the actual problem so it can be addressed appropriately.
Jeff V, thanks and I did create my own post that described the problem I was having.
I included link to post above in my original response to your post.
Yes, old system but has been mostly behaving. I have been using this laptop and fedora/windows for a very long time.
But woo hoo! Fedora notified me of an update to my F38 was available today. So I updated and rebooted. Voila! I have been editing and compiling my projects with emacs and the problem seems to have been fixed. I.e. no crazy display problems (blotchy screen, incorrect text rendering/updating) for now.
Very happy that my emacs and display are working again!
Will keep using this system tonight and tomorrow and will update if I run into any more problems.
Thanks again,
Sunil
We mostly are able to continue using old hardware since it still works. Sometimes there are quirks but the often get fixed quickly.
Glad it works for you now.
