Hey folks Manjaro newbie here. Been using Ubuntu a long time but these days it’s got stale. So time to try this. So far I’m digging the experience. Stability is good so far for me (touch wood).
On Ubuntu I had it running pretty smooth using Nvidia Performance mode and I was able to make tweaks in nvidia-settings. On Manjaro those options aren’t available due to hybrid mode I guess (but also the option to switch modes isn’t available).
inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width ✔
System:
Kernel: 5.10.68-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
root=UUID=fd7209c8-38d6-4ae4-9306-da051cd67194 rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet
splash apparmor=1 security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: GNOME 40.4 tk: GTK 3.24.30 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 40.1
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming v: N/A
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 065C71 v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.13.1
date: 12/18/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 71.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 71.1/74.0 Wh (96.1%)
volts: 12.3 min: 11.1 model: Samsung SDI DELL 0GFJ679 type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: Full
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.5 GiB used: 4.56 GiB (29.4%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-7700HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: 9 microcode: EA
cache: L2: 6 MiB bogomips: 44817
Speed: 2228 MHz min/max: 800/3800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2228 2: 1421
3: 1373 4: 1181 5: 1372 6: 1916 7: 1996 8: 1419
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art
avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt 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 hwp hwp_act_window
hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm
mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx 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 xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt
xsaves xtopology xtpr
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 mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:591b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] vendor: Dell
driver: nvidia v: 470.63.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1c8c class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Sunplus Innovation Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-12:7 chip-ID: 1bcf:28c1 class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.13 compositor: gnome-shell driver:
loaded: modesetting,nvidia alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa
resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.2
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel CM238 HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a171 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fb9 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.68-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.37 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless 3165 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: d000
bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:3165 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp3s0 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
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-4:5 chip-ID: 8087:0a2a class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
Device-1: luks-721307aa-6da4-4db0-80a6-f0736f3e5621 maj-min: 254:0
type: LUKS dm: dm-0 size: 73.66 GiB
Components:
p-1: sda7 maj-min: 8:7 size: 73.66 GiB
Device-2: luks-5f2ba54f-9809-4737-84e0-17acea13f6b3 maj-min: 254:1
type: LUKS dm: dm-1 size: 931.51 GiB
Components:
p-1: sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 size: 931.51 GiB
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
v: 3.0 port: f060 bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086.282a rev: 31 class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.94 TiB used: 648.15 GiB (32.7%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD PM871b M.2 2280 128GB
size: 119.24 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2D0Q scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD100
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 3D scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: Western Digital
model: WD10EAVS-00D7B1 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1.75 scheme: MBR
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
...
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C mobo: 41.0 C sodimm: SODIMM C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info:
Processes: 367 Uptime: 11h 6m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 249
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages: 1298 pacman: 1292 lib: 430
flatpak: 6 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.06
xrandr ✔
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3840 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm
1920x1080 60.02 + 60.01* 59.97 59.96 59.93 48.03
...
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1-0 connected 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1600mm x 900mm
1920x1080 60.00*+ 59.94 50.00 23.98 60.05 60.00 50.04
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TLDR; anyway, any pointers as to how I can get smooth performance on Gnome and not this jerky experience I’ve been having? I’m happy to use dedicated Nvidia driver if he hybrid can’t do Gnome smoothly and I’ll consider Open Source Intel with Wayland too as a short-term fix.
Thanks