My screens flickers after upgrade

[boris_perez]

My screens flickers after upgrade Manjaro Gnome 5.11.2. My inxi -Fxza --no-host output is:

System:
  Kernel: 5.4.101-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4-x86_64 
  root=UUID=3e56f450-cdc8-415b-bb53-88599061b419 ro quiet splash apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: GNOME 3.38.3 tk: GTK 3.24.26 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 3.38.2.1 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: TSINGHUA TONGFANG product: H81-M1 v: N/A 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: PEGATRON model: H81-M1 v: 1.02 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: P014AP0M date: 01/03/2014 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 7.61 GiB used: 1.99 GiB (26.1%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-4440 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell 
  family: 6 model-id: 3C (60) stepping: 3 microcode: 28 L2 cache: 6 MiB 
  bogomips: 24753 
  Speed: 898 MHz min/max: 800/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 898 2: 898 3: 898 
  4: 898 
  Flags: abm acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts 
  clflush 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 ibpb ibrs ida invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx 
  monitor movbe msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm 
  pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdtscp rep_good 
  sdbg sep 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 xsave 
  xsaveopt xtopology xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages 
  Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
  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: disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics 
  vendor: Pegatron driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0412 
  class ID: 0300 
  Display: wayland server: X.org 1.20.10 compositor: gnome-shell driver: 
  loaded: i915 note: n/a (using device driver) - try sudo/root display ID: 0 
  resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo> 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2) 
  v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.4 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio 
  vendor: Pegatron driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:03.0 
  chip ID: 8086:0c0c class ID: 0403 
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Pegatron 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:8c20 
  class ID: 0403 
  Device-3: C-Media Audio Adapter type: USB 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 2-7:3 chip ID: 0d8c:000c 
  class ID: 0300 
  Device-4: Pinnacle Systems Dazzle DVC100 Audio Device type: USB 
  driver: em28xx,snd-usb-audio bus ID: 2-10:5 chip ID: 2304:021a 
  class ID: 0102 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.101-1-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Pegatron driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 class ID: 0200 
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Message: No Bluetooth data was found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data was found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.73 TiB used: 759.8 GiB (27.2%) 
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1CH162 
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: CC47 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1ER162 
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: CC45 scheme: MBR 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: Seagate model: Expansion 
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B 
  serial: <filter> rev: 060E scheme: MBR 
  Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 60 GiB size: 58.81 GiB (98.01%) used: 17.03 GiB (29.0%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A 
  uuid: 3e56f450-cdc8-415b-bb53-88599061b419 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 570 MiB size: 568.8 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 label: N/A 
  uuid: 6407-0824 
  ID-3: /home raw size: 30 GiB size: 29.4 GiB (98.01%) used: 2.47 GiB (8.4%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 label: N/A 
  uuid: 3c41e050-f993-4d02-8b46-1a5374b6b235 
  ID-4: /mnt/Cosas raw size: 498.76 GiB size: 498.76 GiB (100.00%) 
  used: 245.82 GiB (49.3%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sdb6 maj-min: 8:22 label: Cosas 
  uuid: 5B88BB3935ED0CB9 
  ID-5: /mnt/Trabajo1 raw size: 220.23 GiB size: 220.23 GiB (100.00%) 
  used: 133.09 GiB (60.4%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sdb5 maj-min: 8:21 
  label: Trabajo1 uuid: 74F37E206086A289 
  ID-6: /mnt/Trabajo2 raw size: 156.25 GiB size: 156.25 GiB (100.00%) 
  used: 83.04 GiB (53.1%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sdb7 maj-min: 8:23 
  label: Trabajo2 uuid: 045DFFE75DF35099 
  ID-7: /mnt/Trabajo3 raw size: 832.85 GiB size: 818.78 GiB (98.31%) 
  used: 76 MiB (0.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 label: Trabajo3 
  uuid: a1f55991-2e81-4153-82a6-fc2adb53f56a 
  ID-8: /run/media/boris/HDOcio raw size: 585.94 GiB size: 575.74 GiB (98.26%) 
  used: 199.77 GiB (34.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc2 maj-min: 8:34 label: HDOcio 
  uuid: be156cef-32af-4df8-90c0-17b770979205 
  ID-9: /run/media/boris/HDWork raw size: 345.58 GiB size: 339.15 GiB (98.14%) 
  used: 78.5 GiB (23.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 label: HDWork 
  uuid: c539c530-6430-4817-bbc0-30f936f900f4 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.1 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A 
  uuid: 1dd8f952-9877-40ac-aca2-00c9c38d1ecd 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sdb3 maj-min: 8:19 size: 1 KiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900 
  Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:8008 class ID: 0900 
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 10 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 2-5:2 info: Realtek RTS5182 Card Reader type: Mass Storage 
  driver: ums-realtek interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 0bda:0184 class ID: 0806 serial: <filter> 
  Device-2: 2-7:3 info: C-Media Audio Adapter type: Audio,HID 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 1.1 
  speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 0d8c:000c class ID: 0300 
  Device-3: 2-9:4 
  info: Seagate RSS LLC USB 3.0 bridge [Portable Expansion Drive] 
  type: Mass Storage driver: uas interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 0bc2:2320 class ID: 0806 serial: <filter> 
  Device-4: 2-10:5 info: Pinnacle Systems Dazzle DVC100 Audio Device 
  type: Audio driver: em28xx,snd-usb-audio interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 2304:021a class ID: 0102 
  Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900 
  Hub-5: 3-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:8000 class ID: 0900 
  Hub-6: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0003 class ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 215 Uptime: 5m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: 
  gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 1233 lib: 276 flatpak: 0 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 
  running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.0

Thanks …

[Yochanan]

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[boris_perez]

Ok…rigth now…Thanks

[boris_perez]

Last thing i did was downgrade Kernel to 5.4.10…perhaps my cpu is too old and it doesn’t get very well with Kernel 5.11

[Yochanan]

Possibly. Try the 5.4 and/or 5.10 LTS kernels. It’s good to have them installed as fallback, anyway.

[boris_perez]

I´d tried before with 5.10 and have the same problem…till now, with 5.4 it seems problem solved…
Thanks anyway…

[GS500]

I have the same CPU and chipset as you and I have the same problem on 5.10 and 5.11. I’m using KDE It started about 3 updates ago for me. After a reboot I have no problems for a few hours, then the screen starts flashing. Also any open window seems to scroll up and down about every second.

5.4 works for me as well, but I’ve tried a few things to fix it in 5.10. I added a xorg config file as suggested here, but that didn’t help.

Next I tried adding intel_idle.max_cstate=4 as suggested here but no luck there either.

Finally, I uninstalled the x86-video-intel driver, deleted my 20-intel.conf config file I added from the first link and am now using the modesetting driver. That also didn’t help.

So, it looks like I’m using 5.4 for the time being, I hope Manjaro supports that kernel for a while.

Also, my inxi output:

System:    Kernel: 5.11.2-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.11-x86_64 root=UUID=981c9f9b-3052-42ec-b9d7-86ae8279be16 rw quiet 
           apparmor=1 security=apparmor resume=UUID=3d45c198-5b73-451a-b198-1d71e3a66477 udev.log_priority=3 
           intel_idle.max_cstate=4 
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.2 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z97X-UD3H v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z97X-UD3H-CF v: x.x serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: F9 date: 09/18/2015 
Battery:   Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech MX Keys Wireless Keyboard serial: <filter> 
           charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
           Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse MX Master 3 serial: <filter> 
           charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-4590 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell family: 6 model-id: 3C (60) 
           stepping: 3 microcode: 28 L2 cache: 6 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 26411 
           Speed: 2761 MHz min/max: 800/3700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2761 2: 2891 3: 2432 4: 2229 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
           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: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Gigabyte driver: i915 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0412 class ID: 0300 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: modesetting 
           alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa display ID: :0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 4480x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1185x285mm (46.7x11.2") s-diag: 1219mm (48") 
           Monitor-1: HDMI-1 res: 2560x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 81 size: 798x334mm (31.4x13.1") diag: 865mm (34.1") 
           Monitor-2: HDMI-2 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 96 size: 510x290mm (20.1x11.4") diag: 587mm (23.1") 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.4 compat-v: 3.0 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:03.0 chip ID: 8086:0c0c class ID: 0403 
           Device-2: Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           chip ID: 8086:8ca0 class ID: 0403 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.2-1-MANJARO 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I217-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e v: kernel port: f080 bus ID: 00:19.0 
           chip ID: 8086:153b class ID: 0200 
           IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 3.19 TiB used: 267.6 GiB (8.2%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Sabrent model: N/A size: 238.47 GiB block size: physical: 512 B 
           logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: RKT303.3 temp: 26.9 C 
           scheme: GPT 
           ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 840 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: DB6Q scheme: GPT 
           ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Toshiba model: HDWD130 size: 2.73 TiB block size: physical: 4096 B 
           logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: ACF0 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 229.37 GiB size: 224.77 GiB (97.99%) used: 126.87 GiB (56.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
           maj-min: 259:2 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) used: 280 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: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 205 Uptime: 11h 02m wakeups: 16 Memory: 7.55 GiB used: 2.88 GiB (38.1%) Init: systemd v: 247 
           Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.1.0 Packages: 1632 pacman: 1626 lib: 454 flatpak: 6 snap: 0 Shell: Bash 
           v: 5.1.0 running in: konsole inxi: 3.3.01

[koshikas]

y’all having this issue should checkout;

Graphic issue after last update 2021-02-28

I’m not sure (don’t remember) if anything seemed blurry, but after I updated my system last night open windows (konsole, dolphin, firefoc, etc.) seemed to vibrate; moving up and down rapidly. I’d read of a similar issue a few weeks ago while test driving EndeavorOS: Since 5.21 there are glitches or something like that on my screen I tried the first option in the post marked as the solution (post #7 Solution), rebooted, and it worked.

[boris_perez]

Thanks…just one question , do you use 1 screen or 2?..i have 2… one on HDMI port and the other on the DVI port…

[GS500]

I have 2 screens, one HDMI and one DVI.

The fix that @koshikas mentioned didn’t help my issue either.