Has anyone noticed crashes changing display scaling and orientation in scenarios where the cursor is squashed?

[pugly-tech]

On Linux Mint 22.1 if I don't install the Nvidia drivers from Nvidia directly, I get the squashed curser. When playing around with display scaling and screen orientation to see if that fixed it (it does), I found that the system gets very, very unhappy with the change and takes a long time to reload, and if you try to revert to defaults Cinnamon will crash and it refuses to return to defaults. I encountered a scenario where the desktop crashes and reloads every few seconds, making it difficult to run the driver installer.

I'm wondering if anyone has experienced that when they had the bad curser bug, and if thays a related issue that should be tested at the same time? Just changing display scaling to 200% and back and setting the display to portrait and back is enough to cause to to crash.

[SuperDuperDeou]

Which userspace driver are you using? Modesetting or Nvidia?

If you haven't added this to the X server config you're using modesetting, because otherwise XLibre will see an ABI mismatch with the userspace driver in the Nvidia drivers and fall back to modesetting.

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "IgnoreABI" "1"
EndSection

Modesetting support on Nvidia is pretty early and should be used for testing purposes only. So, add those lines to your xorg.conf, and maybe also the following for good measure:

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection