Flatpak nvidia drivers related error?

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I am trying to run a application through flatpak on terminal and I get this:

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Maybe this is related with nvidia drivers, as this seems to make the program look like this:
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that is the same when I was trying to use gnome.
I was thinking of giving up before because of the drivers and seemed that there’s nothing I could do.
but with this errors on terminal, is there a way to fix it?

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what do you get when you run flatpak list | grep nvidia ?

Here is an example of my output :

flatpak list | grep nvidia
nvidia-550-78	org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-550-78		1.4	flathub	system

Also, within Flatseal you can check if the application is gpu accelerated :

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flatpak list | grep nvidia
nvidia-470-239-06	org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-470-239-06		1.4	system

that flatseal is nice, thanks!
it is behaving like other applications on gnome, disappearing words.

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I put GPU acceleration on modrinth and now only the first warning appears, it still like that though.
spotify there’s no problems like that too, everything fine.

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I know from a previous post :

I have suspicions about how your setup is, Are you using a typical USB port, USB3 or Thunderbolt/USB4 ??? I think you could be bandwidth limited. . . This is just a suspicion :thinking: Can you try a different port?

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… Maybe you’re right. I just searched it now and it seems that the port for usb needs to be blue and it will mean 3.0.
My computer only has black ones

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Give those other ports a try, but I think this issue could be related. If not I’m out of sorts with what to try.

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The broken text rendering in Flatseal is a known issue with the legacy nvidia driver (470):

The workaround is to set GSK_RENDERER=gl.

Your original issue looks like:

There are a couple of workarounds suggested there, including setting WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1.

These issues are both caused by using the legacy nvidia driver, but they’re unrelated to each other. What’s your GPU model? Is it old enough to require the legacy driver?

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The OP is using a Nvidia GT710 so it needs the 470.XXX driver

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You are using the 470xx driver. That means you must use xorg since that driver does not support wayland.

Are you using the x11 DE or trying to use wayland?

Also note that it has been several years since that driver was supported by nvidia and most apps have moved on to the newer drivers and DEs so the errors you see may be directly related to the old drivers and the old hardware.

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the ones working on my deplorable computer, does not change anything

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I searched and never found someone with that much similar problem haha
I put the gsk_renderer and the text only gets broken when not in maximize, as someone said there.

but the webkit seemed I got a little confused where to put it.
is it here?

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if it is, didn’t work.
i tried ‘‘env’’ with that command too on the terminal.

@computersavvy

I am not trying to use wayland, I am just trying to make programs with problems seemed related to it work. I used some commands on terminal and everything is x11

unfortunaly, probably yes.