With the latest Manjaro stable update Firefox started to flickering/had graphical glitches all over. I’m using KDE X11 Session. Any ideas what can be the cause, what I can try or what further information I should provide?
Edit: It seems only to appear when I have Twitch streams open.
Which version of Firefox ?
90.0.1
Can you gives some system info ?
inxi -Fza
on console ?
System: Kernel: 5.13.1-3-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.13-x86_64
root=UUID=028ed5bf-7a36-406b-b781-10ae62408e41 rw quiet
resume=UUID=14640b8a-bd13-4b61-adb4-53a8d09ffdfa udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.3 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine: Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Z420 Workstation v: N/A
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 6 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1589 v: 0.00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Hewlett-Packard
v: J61 v03.96 date: 10/29/2019
CPU: Info: 6-Core model: Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge
family: 6 model-id: 3E (62) stepping: 4 microcode: 42E cache: L2: 12 MiB
flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 83820
Speed: 3593 MHz min/max: 1200/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3593 2: 3596 3: 3600
4: 3606 5: 3607 6: 3593 7: 3600 8: 3609 9: 3595 10: 3611 11: 3610 12: 3618
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: 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: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: AMD Baffin [Radeon RX 460/560D / Pro 450/455/460/555/555X/560/560X]
vendor: XFX Pine driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67ef
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67df class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: amdgpu
unloaded: modesetting alternate: ati,fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 9120x3440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 2413x910mm (95.0x35.8")
s-diag: 2579mm (101.5")
Monitor-1: DisplayPort-0 res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 123 size: 527x296mm (20.7x11.7")
diag: 604mm (23.8")
Monitor-2: DisplayPort-1-1 res: 5120x2160 dpi: 163 size: 800x330mm (31.5x13.0")
diag: 865mm (34.1")
Monitor-3: HDMI-A-1-1 res: 1440x2560 hz: 60
Monitor-4: DVI-D-1-2 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 102 size: 477x268mm (18.8x10.6")
diag: 547mm (21.5")
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 470 Graphics (POLARIS10 DRM 3.41.0 5.13.1-3-MANJARO
LLVM 12.0.0)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.4 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: AMD Baffin HDMI/DP Audio [Radeon RX 550 640SP / RX 560/560X]
vendor: XFX Pine driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aae0
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aaf0 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Samson Meteor condenser microphone type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 2-1.1.4:7 chip-ID: 17a0:0310
class-ID: 0300
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.1-3-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.31 running: yes
Network: Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e
v: kernel port: e040 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:1502 class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8169 PCI Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 v: kernel port: a000
bus-ID: 06:04.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8169 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp6s4 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth: Device-1: ASUSTek ASUS USB-BT500 type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-4:3
chip-ID: 0b05:190e class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives: Local Storage: total: 3.18 TiB used: 1.22 TiB (38.4%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT500MX500SSD1 size: 465.76 GiB
block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: 023 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: SanDisk model: SDSSDH3500G size: 465.76 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: 70RL scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37240G size: 223.57 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: B1D1 scheme: GPT
ID-4: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DX001-1CM162
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: CC62 scheme: GPT
ID-5: /dev/sde maj-min: 8:64 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DX001-1CM162
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: CC43 scheme: GPT
ID-6: /dev/sdf maj-min: 8:80 vendor: SanDisk model: SDSSDHP256G size: 238.47 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: <unknown> rotation: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: 6RL scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 238.22 GiB size: 233.48 GiB (98.01%) used: 21.46 GiB (9.2%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sdf1 maj-min: 8:81
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 250 MiB size: 246.1 MiB (98.46%) used: 298 KiB (0.1%)
fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdf2 maj-min: 8:82
ID-3: /home raw-size: 883.51 GiB size: 868.64 GiB (98.32%) used: 804.41 GiB (92.6%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdd2 maj-min: 8:50
Swap: Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 48 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/sdd1 maj-min: 8:49
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 62.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 57.0 C fan: 1807 watts: 28.18 device: amdgpu temp: 60.0 C
fan: 1840 watts: 35.16
Info: Processes: 344 Uptime: 7h 35m wakeups: 0 Memory: 31.29 GiB used: 8.09 GiB (25.9%)
Init: systemd v: 248 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1369
lib: 426 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.05Doesn’t work.
As I searched for my problem with the key words Firefox and flickering I didn’t find anything helpful. But I search now Firefox glitches and found this thread.
Set
gfx.webrender.force-disabledtotrueinabout:configand restart Firefox.
Seems to be working at the moment. But I have to observe a while before I can confirm. The other option mentioned in the link I don’t test yet.
Setting gfx.webrender.force-disabled to true seems to have solved the issue for me, at least for now. We’ll see how long it holds.