Hey guys, having some issues with Manjaro using a fresh install of the latest release on an Acer Aspire 5.
Just through normal use I notice the laptop continually runs quite warm and the battery life is extremely low compared to windows, about 2 hours in Manjaro vs about 8 hours in Windows 10. I also noticed that overall the system is just slow in general, one frustrating example being that typing is really laggy. Even now it sometimes takes close to a second for the screen to catch up to what I’m typing, it’s very jarring.
I have a suspicion it has something the issue might lie with my video driver, however I don’t have any options to change the actual driver in the manjaro hardware settings, it seems to just be happy with whatever came with the OS.
Wondering if anyone else has had any issues with a hardware setup similar to mine and has any tips?
Pasted my inxi below, let me know what else you need
inxi -Fza
System: Kernel: 5.10.32-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64 root=UUID=313367de-e0e0-4859-af9b-e6b723f4ce23 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=b167e789-9adb-4bd4-816f-9d40f85cfc4e udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A515-43 v: V1.11 serial: <filter>
Mobo: PK model: Grumpy_PK v: V1.11 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.11 date: 11/16/2020
Battery: ID-1: BAT1 charge: 33.8 Wh (62.5%) condition: 54.1/53.0 Wh (102.1%) volts: 15.4 min: 15.4 model: PANASONIC AP19B5L
type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Discharging
CPU: Info: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen/Zen+
note: check family: 17 (23) model-id: 18 (24) stepping: 1 microcode: 8108109 cache: L2: 2 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 33535
Speed: 2394 MHz min/max: 1400/2100 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2394 2: 2374 3: 2382 4: 2380 5: 2379
6: 2381 7: 2378 8: 2390
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown 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 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Picasso vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu v: kernel
bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:15d8 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Quanta HD User Facing type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1:2 chip-ID: 0408:a061 class-ID: 0e02
Display: wayland server: X.Org 1.21.1.1 compositor: kwin_wayland driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :1 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.0x11.3") s-diag: 583mm (23")
Monitor-1: XWAYLAND0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 143 size: 340x190mm (13.4x7.5") diag: 389mm (15.3")
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (RAVEN DRM 3.40.0 5.10.32-1-MANJARO LLVM 11.1.0) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3
direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 05:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:15de class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: N/A alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x bus-ID: 05:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 05:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.32-1-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: 0.3.26 running: yes
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169
v: kernel port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 2000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:095a
class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-4:4 chip-ID: 8087:0a2a
class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 5 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes
address: see --recommends
Drives: Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 15.77 GiB (6.6%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: SK Hynix model: HFM256GDJTNG-8310A size: 238.47 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s lanes: 2 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 80002C00 temp: 37.9 C
scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 229.37 GiB size: 224.71 GiB (97.97%) used: 14.35 GiB (6.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
maj-min: 259:1
Swap: Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 1.42 GiB (16.2%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: 0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 47.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 264 Uptime: 13h 08m wakeups: 4 Memory: 5.74 GiB used: 5.21 GiB (90.7%) Init: systemd v: 247
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 1217 pacman: 1214 lib: 328 flatpak: 0 snap: 3 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.04