Greetings everyone.
I have a laptop with intel iris xe graphics along with nvidia 3060.
Here is an inxi output:
System:
Kernel: 5.15.72-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
root=UUID=625877de-1193-4e86-a951-3fa45cccfd36 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 i915.enable_psr=0 i915.enable_dc=0
i915.enable_fbc=0
Desktop: i3 v: 4.21 info: i3bar dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: GIGABYTE product: AORUS 17 KE4 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 10 v: y.y serial: N/A
Mobo: GIGABYTE model: AORUS 17 KE4 v: WIN11 serial: N/A UEFI: American
Megatrends LLC. v: FB08 date: 03/07/2022
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 99.0 Wh (100.0%) condition: 99.0/99.0 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 16.9 min: 15.2 model: GIGABYTE Aorus 17 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: full
Memory:
RAM: total: 62.48 GiB used: 11.38 GiB (18.2%)
Array-1: capacity: 64 GiB slots: 2 EC: None max-module-size: 32 GiB
note: est.
Device-1: Controller0-ChannelA-DIMM0 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous
size: 32 GiB speed: 3200 MT/s volts: curr: 1.2 min: 1.2 max: 1.2
width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Kingston
part-no: KF3200C20S4/32GX serial: <filter>
Device-2: Controller1-ChannelA-DIMM0 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous
size: 32 GiB speed: 3200 MT/s volts: curr: 1.2 min: 1.2 max: 1.2
width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Kingston
part-no: KF3200C20S4/32GX serial: <filter>
CPU:
Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700H socket: U3E1 bits: 64
type: MST AMCP arch: Alder Lake gen: core 12 level: v3 note: check
built: 2021+ process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF) family: 6 model-id: 0x9A (154)
stepping: 3 microcode: 0x421
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 14 mt: 6 tpc: 2 st: 8 threads: 20 smt: enabled
cache: L1: 1.2 MiB desc: d-8x32 KiB, 6x48 KiB; i-6x32 KiB, 8x64 KiB
L2: 11.5 MiB desc: 6x1.2 MiB, 2x2 MiB L3: 24 MiB desc: 1x24 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 953 high: 1358 min/max: 400/4679:4700:3500
base/boost: 4059/4700 scaling: driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave
volts: 1.3 V ext-clock: 100 MHz cores: 1: 840 2: 1001 3: 1077 4: 1037
5: 889 6: 849 7: 956 8: 795 9: 1019 10: 400 11: 889 12: 663 13: 977
14: 1111 15: 1333 16: 1148 17: 886 18: 909 19: 939 20: 1358
bogomips: 107560
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
arch_capabilities arch_lbr arch_perfmon art avx avx2 avx_vnni bmi1 bmi2
bts cat_l2 cdp_l2 clflush clflushopt clwb 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 fsrm fxsr gfni ht hwp
hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify hwp_pkg_req ibpb ibrs ibrs_enhanced ida
intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor
movbe movdir64b movdiri msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx ospke pae pat pbe
pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pku pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts
rdpid rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep serialize sha_ni smap
smep smx split_lock_detect ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp
syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer tsc_known_freq
umip vaes vme vmx vnmi vpclmulqdq vpid waitpkg x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec
xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
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 status: Vulnerable: eIBRS with unprivileged eBPF
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P Integrated Graphics vendor: Gigabyte
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-12.2 process: Intel 10nm built: 2021-22+
ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:46a6 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: Gigabyte
driver: nvidia v: 515.76 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 515.xx+
status: current (as of 2022-10) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7
(7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max:
gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2520
class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Goodong USB Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-9:4
chip-ID: 3252:0004 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3
compositor: Compton driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
alternate: fbdev,intel,nouveau,nv,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :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 model: Sharp LQ173M1JW12 built: 2021 res: 1920x1080
hz: 360 dpi: 128 gamma: 1.2 size: 382x215mm (15.04x8.46")
diag: 438mm (17.3") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 3-7.3:84 v: kernel chip-ID: 0951:173f
alternate: snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 class-ID: 0300
chip-ID: 8086:51c8 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8
link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1
chip-ID: 10de:228e class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Kingston HyperX Cloud Core Wireless type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
Sound API: ALSA v: k5.15.72-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.58 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:51f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel
pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 2e:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp46s0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: br-60e570e8dadb state: down mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IF-ID-2: br-c911ebbe25bf state: down mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IF-ID-3: br-f4ce0ef17aa5 state: down mac: <filter>
Message: Output throttled. IPs: 1; Limit: 10; Override: --limit [1-x;-1
all]
IF-ID-4: br-f9f07955bc22 state: down mac: <filter>
Message: Output throttled. IPs: 1; Limit: 10; Override: --limit [1-x;-1
all]
IF-ID-5: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
Message: Output throttled. IPs: 1; Limit: 10; Override: --limit [1-x;-1
all]
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-10:6
chip-ID: 8087:0033 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.87 TiB used: 169.87 GiB (8.9%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
model: MZVL21T0HCLR-00B00 size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: GXA7401Q temp: 33.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:5 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 1TB
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B4QFXO7 temp: 37.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 type: USB vendor: Kingston
model: DataTraveler 3.0 size: 28.9 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: PMAP scheme: MBR
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 434.36 GiB size: 426.48 GiB (98.18%) used: 169.84 GiB
(39.8%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
label: N/A uuid: 625877de-1193-4e86-a951-3fa45cccfd36
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) used: 25.6 MiB
(8.5%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
label: NO_LABEL uuid: E0AA-2CC3
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 16 MiB fs: N/A label: N/A
uuid: N/A
ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 519.2 GiB fs: ntfs
label: Windows 10 uuid: A6C60943C60914E9
ID-3: /dev/nvme1n1p1 maj-min: 259:6 size: 931.51 GiB fs: ntfs label: DATA
uuid: C38080B63D247E4D
ID-4: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 3.09 GiB fs: iso9660
ID-5: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 4 MiB fs: vfat label: MISO_EFI
uuid: AC66-2FEF
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 1 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 1 rev: 3.1 speed: 20 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-6:2 info: Chu Yuen Enterprise USB-HID Keyboard
type: Keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 1044:7a3b class-ID: 0300
serial: <filter>
Hub-4: 3-7:82 info: Terminus Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 1a40:0101 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-7.1:86 info: Areson Corp 2.4G Wireless Receiver
type: Mouse,Keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 98mA chip-ID: 25a7:fa7c class-ID: 0301
Device-2: 3-7.2:83 info: Telink Wireless Gaming Mouse type: Mouse
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 400mA chip-ID: 320f:221d class-ID: 0301
Device-3: 3-7.3:84 info: Kingston HyperX Cloud Core Wireless
type: Audio,HID driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4
rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0951:173f class-ID: 0300
Device-4: 3-7.4:85 info: Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3/G4/SE9 G2/50
type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1
speed: 480 Mb/s power: 300mA chip-ID: 0951:1666 class-ID: 0806
serial: <filter>
Device-5: 3-8:112 info: Ergohaven Dactyl Manuform 5x6 type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: feed:9336 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Device-6: 3-9:4 info: Goodong USB Camera type: Video driver: uvcvideo
interfaces: 5 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 3252:0004
class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Device-7: 3-10:6 info: Intel type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0033 class-ID: e001
Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 34.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 506 Uptime: 12h 47m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 251
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 clang: 14.0.6
Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 0 pm: pacman pkgs: 1655 libs: 475 tools: pamac,yay
Shell: Bash (sudo) v: 5.1.16 running-in: guake inxi: 3.3.22
And here is xrandr output:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 382mm x 215mm
1920x1080 360.01*+ 60.00 + 59.97 59.96 59.93
1680x1050 59.95 59.88
1400x1050 74.76 59.98
1600x900 59.99 59.94 59.95 59.82
1280x1024 85.02 75.02 60.02
1400x900 59.96 59.88
1280x960 85.00 60.00
1440x810 60.00 59.97
1368x768 59.88 59.85
1280x800 59.99 59.97 59.81 59.91
1152x864 75.00
1280x720 60.00 59.99 59.86 59.74
1024x768 85.00 75.05 60.04 85.00 75.03 70.07 60.00
1024x768i 86.96
960x720 85.00 75.00 60.00
928x696 75.00 60.05
896x672 75.05 60.01
1024x576 59.95 59.96 59.90 59.82
960x600 59.93 60.00
832x624 74.55
960x540 59.96 59.99 59.63 59.82
800x600 85.00 75.00 70.00 65.00 60.00 85.14 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
840x525 60.01 59.88
864x486 59.92 59.57
700x525 74.76 59.98
800x450 59.95 59.82
640x512 85.02 75.02 60.02
700x450 59.96 59.88
640x480 85.09 60.00 85.01 72.81 75.00 59.94
720x405 59.51 58.99
720x400 85.04
684x384 59.88 59.85
640x400 59.88 59.98 85.08
576x432 75.00
640x360 59.86 59.83 59.84 59.32
640x350 85.08
512x384 85.00 75.03 70.07 60.00
512x384i 87.06
512x288 60.00 59.92
416x312 74.66
480x270 59.63 59.82
400x300 85.27 72.19 75.12 60.32 56.34
432x243 59.92 59.57
320x240 85.18 72.81 75.00 60.05
360x202 59.51 59.13
360x200 85.04
320x200 85.27
320x180 59.84 59.32
320x175 85.27
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
And here is the problem I am facing:
Actually it is similar, or the same as described in this topic: Monitor is blinking as crazy [Intel CPU + Intel Iris XE + 1TB NVME SSD]
It is the same “black blinking” problem involving intel iris xe.
And it suggests adding one boot parameter, which I added, and it helps, but not completely. It only mitigates the problem a little bit, but blinking haven’t went away. Just reduced by like 80%.
Tried many other options, including adding more boot parameters as they were suggested elsewhere, where I ended up with this line in the grub config:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet apparmor=1 security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 i915.enable_psr=0 i915.enable_dc=0 i915.enable_fbc=0"
Doesn’t help.
Also it was suggested to disable intel ucode image, and I see it being used, since I see this output of “update-grub”:
Found initrd image: /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-5.15-x86_64.img
… but I fail to find it in the configs.
And maybe this is not the problem anymore with intel ucode, since two years have passed since the time of the post, so they might fixed something. If not, then please tell me where to look to disable usage of initrd in the grub configs or somewhere else.
Also tried to limiting the refresh rate to 60 fps, thinking that this might help, with no avail.
I thought that because it’s a laptop with 360 fps matrix, so maybe lowering the refresh rate might help, but no.
So yeah, I humbly request your help. Since I ran out of ideas and google search links and suggestions.
