Very short black flickering with nvidia 2080Ti after newest stable update

Since brand new stable update from today, im experience a very short black flickering, even open kate or starting terminal, it shows a strange behavior.

After installing nvidia-settings (i have a 2080Ti) and after a restart i got it reduced a little.

But i just see it flickers again when i openend Steam or right now in Firefox, while i write this message.

I hope someone can give me a solution… this is a very annoying bug.

$ inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width:

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.104-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
    root=UUID=eb235aa7-d461-413d-800e-ea57385703fb rw quiet apparmor=1
    sysrq_always_enabled=1 retbleed=off security=apparmor
    resume=UUID=717b267e-7322-4bf9-a840-f1210d422d1a udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.3 tk: Qt v: 5.15.8 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
    Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z170X-UD3 v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z170X-UD3-CF v: x.x serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends v: F23d date: 12/01/2017
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.58 GiB used: 3.43 GiB (22.0%)
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-6700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake-S
    gen: core 6 level: v3 note: check built: 2015 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
    model-id: 0x5E (94) stepping: 3 microcode: 0xF0
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
    L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 4500 high: 4502 min/max: 800/4700 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: performance cores: 1: 4500 2: 4501 3: 4501
    4: 4500 5: 4500 6: 4501 7: 4500 8: 4502 bogomips: 64026
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
    arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush
    clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64
    dtherm dts ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu
    fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida
    intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor
    movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm
    pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp
    rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp
    syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi
    vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
    vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: retbleed status: Vulnerable
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU102 [GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Rev. A] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: nvidia v: 530.41.03 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 530.xx+
    status: current (as of 2023-03) arch: Turing code: TUxxx
    process: TSMC 12nm FF built: 2018-22 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1e07
    class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 122 s-size: 532x302mm (20.94x11.89")
    s-diag: 612mm (24.08")
  Monitor-1: DP-4 res: 2560x1440 dpi: 123 size: 527x296mm (20.75x11.65")
    diag: 604mm (23.8") modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 530.41.03 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
    Ti/PCIe/SSE2 direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU102 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f7 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Creative Labs CA0132 Sound Core3D [Sound Blaster Recon3D /
    Z-Series BlasterX AE-5 Plus] driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 0b:00.0 chip-ID: 1102:0012 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k5.15.104-2-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.67 status: off with: pipewire-media-session
    status: active tools: pw-cli
  Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active with: pulseaudio-jack
    type: module tools: pacat,pactl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e v: kernel
    port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b8 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 4.57 TiB used: 218.9 GiB (4.7%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 960 EVO 500GB
    size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
    lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B7QCXE7 temp: 31.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 PRO 1TB
    size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q scheme: MBR
  ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HDN724030ALE640
    size: 2.73 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: A5E0 scheme: GPT
  ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: Samsung
    model: Portable SSD T5 size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B type: SSD serial: <filter> scheme: MBR
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 88.61 GiB size: 86.66 GiB (97.80%) used: 30.19 GiB (34.8%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 label: N/A
    uuid: eb235aa7-d461-413d-800e-ea57385703fb
  ID-2: /boot raw-size: 200 MiB size: 188.2 MiB (94.09%)
    used: 69.7 MiB (37.1%) fs: ext3 dev: /dev/sdc3 maj-min: 8:35 label: N/A
    uuid: 26eda82e-b403-49b8-abca-202167417020
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 332.03 GiB size: 325.75 GiB (98.11%)
    used: 25.3 GiB (7.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc4 maj-min: 8:36 label: N/A
    uuid: ada4a6a2-bd0a-4652-b386-7c637bba7ee9
  ID-4: /media/linux-games raw-size: 196.58 GiB size: 192.43 GiB (97.89%)
    used: 130.51 GiB (67.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3
    label: Linux-games uuid: dd5af583-9d00-4017-adf7-e1d8876486e7
  ID-5: /media/temp raw-size: 63.48 GiB size: 62.18 GiB (97.96%)
    used: 32.84 GiB (52.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 label: temp
    uuid: 1e81b7c2-3438-438a-b572-ff8a966a78e1
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.81 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/sdc2 maj-min: 8:34 label: N/A
    uuid: 717b267e-7322-4bf9-a840-f1210d422d1a
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 size: 442.47 GiB fs: ntfs label: ssm
    uuid: AE7EDC0696B158FD
  ID-2: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 50 MiB fs: ntfs label: System-reserviert
    uuid: B2286A122869D5BF
  ID-3: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 97.09 GiB fs: ntfs label: win10
    uuid: 5E60C09860C077F3
  ID-4: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 size: 585.94 GiB fs: ntfs label: games
    uuid: 165692E31D7ADAF2
  ID-5: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 size: 1.57 TiB fs: <superuser required>
    label: N/A uuid: N/A
  ID-6: /dev/sdb3 maj-min: 8:19 size: 1.09 TiB fs: <superuser required>
    label: N/A uuid: N/A
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-9:2 info: Endor AG ClubSportPedal type: HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 0eb7:183b class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: 1-13:3 info: A4Tech XL-730K / XL-750BK XL-755BK Mice
    type: Keyboard,Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 09da:9090 class-ID: 0301
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 10 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 2-5:2 info: Samsung Portable SSD T5 type: Mass Storage
    driver: uas interfaces: 1 rev: 3.1 speed: 5 Gb/s power: 896mA
    chip-ID: 04e8:61f5 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-6: 6-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 30.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 33 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 25%
Info:
  Processes: 250 Uptime: 26m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 252 default: graphical
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.1 clang: 15.0.7 Packages: 1496
  pm: pacman pkgs: 1490 libs: 425 tools: pamac pm: flatpak pkgs: 6 Shell: Bash
  v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.26

See FS#77975 - [nvidia] 530.41.03-1 high refresh rate problems

@Yochanan
Hmm, i dont use Wayland but i have a 144Hz Monitor and use it on Display Port.
When i look into this report and the comments below, the people mainly use Wayland and have freezes while gaming and other stuff… that doesnt look the same to me.

Edit:
I also have to add that my issue with black flickering temporary vanished while gaming (not in 2D lobby menue) but when the GPU rendering 3D ingame stuff.

I also dont see this flickering when i only watching Videos in SMPlayer.

I also just created a Bug report in the nvidia Forum:
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/very-short-black-flickering-flashes-with-nvidia-2080ti-since-nvidia-530-41-03-driver/248354

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There’s already a post about it:

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Adding nvidia_drm.modeset=1 kernel parameter seems to have fixed it for me, as someone mentioned in the nVidia forum thread. Haven’t seen the top third of my screen flicker since I rebooted with it set.

Setting kernel parameter how-to

In /etc/default/grub add nvidia_drm.modeset=1 to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line, like so (your line might look different, just add it in the quotes):

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nvidia_drm.modeset=1 udev.log_priority=3"

and run

sudo update-grub

Reboot.

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Yeah dbrhks, from the nvidia Forum solved it, also thanks to belyash for creating this little tutorial for the unexperienced Linux users.

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