Re: Bad animations in GNOME in Kernel 5.14
On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 05:47:56PM +0000, Arun Mani J wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> I recently installed Debian 11 in my friend's laptop; a Lenovo IdeaPad 3.
> You can get its full details at -
> https://psref.lenovo.com/Detail/IdeaPad/IdeaPad_3_15ADA05?M=81W1013MMB.
> We then upgraded it to Testing branch.
>
Was there a good reason to install Testing, particularly? Testing doesn't
have immediate security support, for example, and you need to be able to fix
your system when breakages happen. The recommendation is always to use
Stable where possible. https://www.debian.org/devel/testing
> Everything was lovely and smooth.
> But with the recent Kernel upgrade to version 5.14, the animations in GNOME 40
> was little rigid or stiff or didn't appear to be smooth at all.
There could be more than one package involved here: there are a lot of
interactions.
> There are also a few random issues like brightness not responding to any value
> we set (it is always in full brightness even if lower it to the minimum
> possible in Settings), Night Light doesn't make the screen warm anymore,
> windows disappear from Activities panel and so on.
>
Firmware? At some point, GNOME in Testing will move to GNOME 41 and there's
likely to be more package churn.
> However when we boot using Kernel 5.10 via GRUB, everything works perfectly as
> usual. I also use Testing and the upgrades didn't cause any issue for me.
>
"It works for me" (TM) is a good reason to do this for someone else - until
it isn't. :( Is there any possibility of a reinstall of stable?
> I don't know if this is a (known) bug or if it is just a missing parameter in
> boot options for the new Kernel. Any kind of help is welcome :)
>
> Output of lspci - https://paste.debian.net/1214120/
> Screen record of the stiff animation -
> https://upload.disroot.org/r/f85m8ZRQ#CLgu2OwGFwfg/fH6eyICDcDVyCkaQ3HHMQy+9bP0CR0=
> GNOME Shell version - 40.5
> Non-free repository enabled - No, but we used the live image with non-free
> firmware included.
> Output of apt list --installed | grep linux-image -
> linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64/now 5.10.46-4 amd64 [installed,local]
> linux-image-5.14.0-1-amd64/testing,now 5.14.6-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
> linux-image-amd64/testing,now 5.14.6-2 amd64 [installed]
>
> If you need any other information, please tell me.
>
> Thanks for reading!
> J Arun Mani
>
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