Apologies in advance for my ignorance. I’m currently running an ASUS ROG Strix B650 E-F Gaming Wifi, Ryzen 5 8600G (w/ Radeon 760 M Graphics), ASUS TUF AMD Radeon RX 7800XT OC 16G. All are less than 3 months old. Running latest Manjaro KDE and Kernel.
The video is working fine, but I recently noticed the fans on the GPU aren’t spinning, although the card itself is lit up. I’ve noticed since install that my case fans work a fair amount when using heavy video. I’m wondering if the graphics on the CPU are actually running instead of the GPU. I presume there’s a way to switch that to the GPU, but as a relative novice, not sure how. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I will be leaving for the day in a couple hours, but will check back upon my return tonight. Thanks in advance for the help. This forum has always been a great help.
Incidentally, it may bear mentioning I have an HDMI coming out of the 7800 XT to the monitor that is working fine. Now that I think about it, if the HDMI is working from the 7800 XT, then presumably the video isn’t coming from the CPU graphics card, no?
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Someone complains ‘Manjaro won’t let my machine hibernate’ (or similar), and we soon discover they didn’t have a clue that swap space was needed, or even know what the option meant when they encountered it during install, so chose to ignore it.
Thanks for the input. As stated at the beginning of this thread, I’m somewhat a novice and therefore didn’t understand what you were talking about. I was also in a time crunch, which left me little time to ask and comprehend your requests.
I think I have figured out the button of which you spoke and have edited the post accordingly. Hopefully, this time I got it right.
Now, to the solution. dmt, are you suggesting I install Mesa, and if so, is that all I need to do? Again, novice here, I appreciate your patience with someone not knowledgeable but willing to learn. Will that take care of the fans not working? Remember, the video seems to be working, just not the fans.
Then, I’m definitely interested in learning about the swap file issue and what can be done there, as I plead complete ignorance of the issue. I have learned a ton here, but am ever learning. Thanks again for all the help
This is a fair comment. Perhaps your system cooling is already adequate enough as to not require quite as much work from the GPU fans; I know some do react accordingly to cooling status.
It’s better. I suppose it will just take practice to reach perfection.
One of the links I gave earlier explains it in greater detail. Plus, the How to Request Support link (also given) contains a lot of information designed to help you use the forum more effectively.
The fans will spin up when the GPU needs them, ie when it’s being used enough.
Some codecs have been left out of the repo version to avoid complications with the licensing. For AMD this means you can’t use hardware decoding for those codecs, so the system will use software decoding on the CPU.
If you want to use hardware decoding then you need to have a version of mesa that was compiled with support for those codecs.
I couldn’t find this link last night. It tells you how to install a mesa with the non-free codecs, however you need to be on the unstable branch. You can revert if you change your mind.
So here’s what I noticed this morning. When I reboot, the fans will spin up to the login screen, then stop. So maybe you folks are correct that the GPU isn’t getting hot enough to kick in the fans. However, that doesn’t explain how when I go to heavy video intensive sites, the case fans ramp up significantly, and annoyingly.
As far as the non free codecs are concerned, If I go to the link you provided (https://nonfree.eu/), I presume I just follow each entry? I presume the “Remove” part is just if I want to revert back? Do I have to do anything with the links that follow? Lastly, even though it’s unstable, is there much risk involved?
That’s your CPU, getting hotter and perhaps the ambient temperature inside the case rising. Do you have a stock CPU heatsink?
Yes.
The unstable branch is updated from Arch stable several times a day. It’s actually quite stable, and some say they find it more stable than the stable branch. You may, or may not see more bugs etc, it depends.
So I just noticed something else. When you say unstable branch, you mean Manjaro as a whole, not just Mesa? If so, as a novice, I’m not sure I want to go down the rabbit hole
