EDIT/FIX:
It needed to be forced to run in OpenGL mode with
echo skia-gl > $HOME/.BitwigStudio/graphics-backend
in the terminal. It’s running now.
Anybody here able to help with Bitwig on Manjaro Linux? I’ve tried both the AUR install and running from Flatpak and either way it wont open with almost exactly the same printed in the terminal and log. Posting here as I’d definitely prefer use the AUR version over the Flatpak version if I can.
I’m still using Manjaro with X11 and ALSA+Jack if that makes a difference. I’ve thus far spoken to one Bitwig Manjaro user and they were using Wayland and Pipewire. The System Requirements in Bitwig’s Help pages does make any mention of whether one system is need over the other though…
It seems to be something graphics driver related. It correctly find I’m running Intel 5500 HD integrated graphics on my laptop. It doesn’t mention i915 which is the main graphics driver used for most Intel chips, including this one. I do have Vulkan-intel package installed but admit I know absolutely nothing about Vulkan or if anything else I run tries to use it.
$ inxi -zv8
System:
Kernel: 6.9.12-lqx1-1-lqx arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.1.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm parameters: audit=0 intel_pstate=disable
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux-lqx
root=UUID=061bfd5e-d64c-49e5-9fbb-53062d0aa575 rw quiet
resume=UUID=77edc4d2-06b7-4b8c-af4c-c7757bbe342f
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.43 wm: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0
with: xfce4-panel tools: light-locker vt: 7 dm: 1: LightDM v: 1.32.0 2: SDDM
note: stopped Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP EliteBook 840 G2
v: A3009D410303 serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 2216 v: KBC Version 96.5B
serial: <superuser required> part-nu: J8R60EA#ABU uuid: <superuser required>
UEFI: Hewlett-Packard v: M71 Ver. 01.27 date: 07/12/2018
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 24.8 Wh (97.6%) condition: 25.4/25.4 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 12.4 min: 11.4 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: not charging
Memory:
System RAM: total: 8 GiB available: 7.18 GiB used: 2.77 GiB (38.6%)
Message: For most reliable report, use superuser + dmidecode.
Array-1: capacity: 16 GiB slots: 2 modules: 1 EC: None
max-module-size: 8 GiB note: est.
Device-1: Bottom-Slot 1(left) type: DDR3 detail: synchronous size: 8 GiB
speed: 1600 MT/s volts: N/A width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
manufacturer: Kingston part-no: KHX1600C9S3L/8G serial: <filter>
Device-2: Bottom-Slot 2(right) type: no module installed
PCI Slots:
Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-5500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Broadwell
gen: core 5 level: v3 note: check built: 2015-18 process: Intel 14nm
family: 6 model-id: 0x3D (61) stepping: 4 microcode: 0x2F
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
L3: 4 MiB desc: 1x4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2294 high: 2295 min/max: 500/2401 boost: enabled
scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: performance cores: 1: 2295 2: 2295
3: 2294 4: 2294 bogomips: 19154
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon
avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16
cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority
flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid lahf_lm
lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe 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 xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
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 status: Unknown: No mitigations
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
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; BHI: Not
affected
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Hewlett-Packard ZBook 15u G2
Mobile Workstation driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-8 process: Intel 14nm
built: 2014-15 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1616 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.13 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver:
X: loaded: intel dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP1 model: AU Optronics 0x133d built: 2014
res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 157 gamma: 1.2 chroma: red: x: 0.643 y: 0.337
green: x: 0.314 y: 0.620 blue: x: 0.149 y: 0.051 white: x: 0.314 y: 0.329
size: 310x170mm (12.2x6.69") diag: 354mm (13.9") ratio: 16:9
modes: 1920x1080
EDID-Warnings: 1: parse_edid: unknown flag 2
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 layers: 9 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: Intel
HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2) driver: mesa intel v: 24.1.3-manjaro1.1
device-ID: 8086:1616 surfaces: N/A
API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. glxinfo is missing.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:160c
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:9ca0 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.9.12-lqx1-1-lqx status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: active with: 1: a2jmidid status: active
2: nsmd status: off tools: agordejo, cadence, jack_control, jack_mixer,
qjackctl
Server-3: PipeWire v: 1.2.1 status: off tools: pw-cli
Server-4: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active with: 1: pulseaudio-alsa
type: plugin 2: pulseaudio-jack type: module tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I218-LM vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e
v: kernel port: 5080 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:15a2 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:095a class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
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: 3.64 TiB used: 2.73 TiB (75.1%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 4TB
size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 2B6Q scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 122.07 GiB size: 119.84 GiB (98.18%)
used: 80.83 GiB (67.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 label: N/A
uuid: 061bfd5e-d64c-49e5-9fbb-53062d0aa575
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 497 MiB size: 496 MiB (99.80%)
used: 49.9 MiB (10.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
uuid: A27D-524E
ID-3: /run/media/me/data raw-size: 3.19 TiB size: 3.14 TiB (98.40%)
used: 2.66 TiB (84.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 label: N/A
uuid: be07e4f2-9d3f-4157-b3af-bb4ba093d0c3
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
compressor: lz4 max-pool: 20%
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 15.26 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 label: N/A
uuid: 77edc4d2-06b7-4b8c-af4c-c7757bbe342f
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 61.04 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A
uuid: 3ffef06f-042c-4c31-85a9-df054c4fffe8
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 8087:8001
class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 11 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 2-3:2 info: Microchip (formerly SMSC) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 0424:2134
class-ID: 0900
Hub-5: 3-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0
speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Hub-6: 3-3:2 info: Microchip (formerly SMSC) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0
speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 chip-ID: 0424:5534
class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 59.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Repos:
Packages: 2680 pm: pacman pkgs: 2672 libs: 514 tools: pamac,yay pm: flatpak
pkgs: 8
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.conf
1: https://arch.osamc.de/$repo/$arch
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
1: https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/repo.manjaro.org/repos/stable/$repo/$arch
2: https://mirror.23m.com/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
3: https://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
4: http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
5: https://mirrors.ft.uam.es/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
6: https://uvermont.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
7: https://coresite.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
8: http://manjaro.mirror.ac.za/stable/$repo/$arch
9: http://mirror.is.co.za/mirrors/manjaro.org/stable/$repo/$arch
10: https://ct.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Processes:
CPU top: 5 of 262
1: cpu: 99.6% command: BitwigStudio pid: 3520 mem: 542.0 MiB (7.3%)
2: cpu: 22.4% command: firefox pid: 1780 mem: 549.2 MiB (7.4%)
3: cpu: 7.6% command: firefox pid: 3296 mem: 243.5 MiB (3.3%)
4: cpu: 7.1% command: firefox pid: 3417 mem: 263.2 MiB (3.5%)
5: cpu: 4.4% command: firefox pid: 2822 mem: 260.0 MiB (3.5%)
Memory top: 5 of 262
1: mem: 549.2 MiB (7.4%) command: firefox pid: 1780 cpu: 22.4%
2: mem: 542.0 MiB (7.3%) command: BitwigStudio pid: 3520 cpu: 99.6%
3: mem: 263.2 MiB (3.5%) command: firefox pid: 3417 cpu: 7.1%
4: mem: 260.0 MiB (3.5%) command: firefox pid: 2822 cpu: 4.4%
5: mem: 243.5 MiB (3.3%) command: firefox pid: 3296 cpu: 7.6%
Info:
Processes: 262 Power: uptime: 23m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 2.86 GiB services: upowerd,xfce4-power-manager
Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Compilers: clang: 18.1.8 gcc: 14.1.1 alt: 12 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.26
running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.35
(terminal)
$ bitwig-studio
[2024-8-2 8:44:46.794 info] About to start the following process: /opt/bitwig-studio/bin/show-splash-gtk /opt/bitwig-studio/resources/splash-bitwig-studio.png
[2024-8-2 8:44:46.796 info] Child process launched with PID 4177
[2024-8-2 8:44:46.797 info] Backing up log file "/home/me/.BitwigStudio/log/BitwigStudio.log" to "/home/me/.BitwigStudio/log/BitwigStudio-previous-run.log"
[2024-8-2 8:44:46.797 info] About to start the following process: /opt/bitwig-studio/bin/BitwigStudio -cp /opt/bitwig-studio/bin/bitwig.jar:/opt/bitwig-studio/lib/cp:/opt/bitwig-studio/bin/libs.jar -Dorg.sqlite.lib.path=/opt/bitwig-studio/lib/bitwig-studio -XX:+UseZGC -XX:+ZGenerational -Xms300m -Xmx3g -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp/bitwig-me -DinstallationRoot=/opt/bitwig-studio -DsplashPid=4177 -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:ErrorFile=/home/me/.BitwigStudio/bitwig-studio-jvm-crash.log com.bitwig.flt.app.BitwigStudioMain
[2024-8-2 8:44:46.797 info] Redirecting stdout to /home/me/.BitwigStudio/log/BitwigStudio.log
[2024-8-2 8:44:46.798 info] Redirecting stderr to /home/me/.BitwigStudio/log/BitwigStudio.log
[2024-8-2 8:44:46.799 info] Child process launched with PID 4178
(log file)
e[0m[2024-8-2 8:44:46.798 info] stdout successfully redirectede[0m
e[0m[2024-8-2 8:44:46.798 info] stderr successfully redirectede[0m
Using log directory /home/me/.BitwigStudio/log
[2024-08-02 08:44:47.287 float-main-app info] Starting application version 5.2 revision bebb77d7f52679180fd2d7fc443a5c7cad91a6d5
[2024-08-02 08:44:47.302 float-main-app info] Using Java version 21.0.2 from Private Build installed at /opt/bitwig-studio/lib/jre
[2024-08-02 08:44:47.303 float-main-app info] Running on Linux
[2024-08-02 08:44:47.309 float-main-app info] Linux installation: /opt/bitwig-studio
[2024-08-02 08:44:47.310 float-main-app info] Environment variables:
PATH : /home/me/.local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH : /opt/bitwig-studio/lib/bitwig-studio:
[2024-08-02 08:44:47.310 float-main-app info] Starting with arguments
[2024-08-02 08:44:52.587 gui-toolkit-core info] Using locale en
[2024-08-02 08:44:53.279 base-platform info] Using /dev/shm/bitwig-posix-me/BitwigStudio for POSIX resource tracking
[2024-08-02 08:44:53.301 float-main-app info] System UUID: 9e3400f2-bd36-33ab-ba15-ec732f141601
[2024-08-02 08:44:53.844 float-main-app info] Loaded preferences from file /home/me/.BitwigStudio/prefs/5.2.prefs
[2024-08-02 08:44:53.846 float-telemetry info] Starting Telemetry
SLF4J: No SLF4J providers were found.
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See https://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#noProviders for further details.
[2024-8-2 8:44:54.234 info] resolving Bitwig Graphics JNI
[2024-8-2 8:44:54.236 info] successfuly resolved Bitwig Graphics JNI
[2024-8-2 8:44:54.242 skia info] checking if Vulkan is available...
[2024-8-2 8:44:54.258 skia info] Using "Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2)" vulkan physical device
[2024-8-2 8:44:54.272 skia info] Vulkan is available
[2024-08-02 08:44:54.273 windowing-system-core info] Initializing graphics backend using skia-vulkan
[2024-08-02 08:44:54.274 skia-graphics info] Initializing Skia graphics backend using vulkan
[2024-8-2 8:44:54.274 skia info] begin skia initialization
[2024-8-2 8:44:54.297 skia info] skia Library initialized
[2024-8-2 8:44:54.297 skia info] selected rendering backend: 3
[2024-08-02 08:44:54.373 float-main-app info] Using overridden package repository location: "https://packs.bitwig.com"
[2024-08-02 08:44:54.386 package-manager info] Usable package ids changed []
[2024-08-02 08:44:55.076 notifications warning] No Audio Device selected: You need to choose an Audio Device before using Bitwig Studio
[2024-8-2 8:44:55.529 skia info] about to create GPU context: 3
[2024-8-2 8:44:55.562 skia info] Using "Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2)" vulkan physical device
[2024-8-2 8:44:55.596 skia info] GPU context created
