Hi! So, I’ve been facing this problem since a long time… First everything ran smoothly, back when I used to run PopOS 18.04 i guess, then after PopOS updates, i couldnt launch anything using my GPU, using DRI_PRIME=1, as it would just make my pc stuck. So I shifted to Manjaro XFCE, and the same thing happens here… I get stuck when I use DRI_PRIME=1. When Im on Windows 11, nothing like this happens. I can run my games easily with GPU, so I know that my GPU isnt the problem. I hope someone helps me out
Hi,
We need to start with something like system information.
inxi -Fazy
This will have links to guides on how to find info, how to format it while sharing, etc …
System:
Kernel: 6.5.5-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc available: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.5-x86_64
root=UUID=0e38e0ae-63ae-4670-ad92-e49e67094801 rw quiet splash apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Notebook v: Type1ProductConfigId
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 81F0 v: 63.53 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
v: F.50 date: 11/20/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 32.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 32.1/32.1 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 16.7 min: 14.6 model: COMPAL PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: full
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i3-5005U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Broadwell
gen: core 5 level: v3 note: check built: 2015-18 process: Intel 14nm
family: 6 model-id: 0x3D (61) stepping: 4 microcode: 0x2F
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1896 min/max: 500/1900 scaling: driver: intel_cpufreq
governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1896 2: 1896 3: 1896 4: 1896 bogomips: 15969
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
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: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915
v: kernel arch: Gen-8 process: Intel 14nm built: 2014-15 ports: active: eDP-1
empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1616 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: AMD Sun XT [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M / R5 M330 M430 Radeon
520 Mobile] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: radeon v: kernel
alternate: amdgpu arch: GCN-1 code: Southern Islands process: TSMC 28nm
built: 2011-20 pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 4 link-max: gen: 3
speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 0d:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:6660 class-ID: 0380
temp: 46.0 C
Device-3: Chicony HP TrueVision HD driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-5:5 chip-ID: 04f2:b56c
class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.8 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver:
X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa
dri: iris,radeonsi gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0
note: <missing: xdpyinfo/xrandr>
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0x70ec built: 2015 res: 1366x768
dpi: 101 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 1366x768
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0
drv: iris device: 1 drv: radeonsi device: 2 drv: swrast surfaceless:
drv: iris x11: drv: iris inactive: gbm,wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 23.1.9-manjaro1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2)
device-ID: 8086:1616 memory: 7.49 GiB unified: yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:160c
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:9ca0 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.5.5-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.81 status: off tools: pw-cli
Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active with: pulseaudio-alsa
type: plugin tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 5000
bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp7s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: wl
v: kernel modules: bcma pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 13:00.0
chip-ID: 14e4:4365 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp19s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM43142A0 Bluetooth 4.0 driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-4:4 chip-ID: 0a5c:216d
class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 15.7 GiB (3.3%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 model: SATA SSD 512GB size: 476.94 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD
serial: <filter> fw-rev: 115 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 388.67 GiB size: 381.5 GiB (98.16%) used: 15.67 GiB (4.1%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%)
used: 29.1 MiB (30.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 63.0 C pch: 50.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon
temp: 46.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Processes: 197 Uptime: 37m wakeups: 1 Memory: total: 8 GiB
available: 7.67 GiB used: 2.65 GiB (34.5%) Init: systemd v: 254
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 clang: 16.0.6
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1029 libs: 310 tools: pamac pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.30
Oh yeah, in your case please also show:
mhwd -l -li
> Installed PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
video-vesa 2017.03.12 true PCI
network-broadcom-wl 2018.10.07 false PCI
video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
Warning: No installed USB configs!
> 0000:13:00.0 (0200:14e4:4365) Network controller Broadcom:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
network-broadcom-wl 2018.10.07 false PCI
> 0000:0d:00.0 (0380:1002:6660) Display controller ATI Technologies Inc:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
> 0000:00:02.0 (0300:8086:1616) Display controller Intel Corporation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
video-vesa 2017.03.12 true PCI
Mk. a few things.
I cant make out the model here. But I would check for BIOS updates if I were you.
This should not be installed.
sudo mhwd -r pci video-vesa
(note and general instruction: dont install random things if you dont know what & why)
This is one of those cards thats on the cusp.
You can use the newer/better amdgpu if you follow
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU#Enable_Southern_Islands_(SI)_and_Sea_Islands_(CIK)_support
(or just install amdgpu-experimental)
I might check other kernels as well. Specifically older, as you have an older amd card. 6.1 is LTS.
video-vesa as not installed back then. i just installed it now to check
and i removed it now
also I have a hp 15-ay005tx laptop, if that helps somehow, it has Intel i3 5005U, and AMD Radeon R5 M430 GPU
can you tell me how i can do so ?
i understand very little from the wiki
The easiest method is to simply install the amdgpu-experimental package:
sudo pacman -Syu amdgpu-experimental
(this should set the options required … afterwards reboot and check inxi again)
you sure its ok for me to install the amdgpu experimental… mine is a GCN 1 card ig
The point is to flip some options to enable amdgpu for your card. Sea Island and Southern Island cards are technically capable, but you need to enable ‘experimental support’ for them to use the amdgpu driver. If it works, and it does 99% of the time, you want that rather than the quite old radeon driver.
This will also work better with prime.
Ok, while its installing, i would also like to tell you that when i had tried the mesa-utils, back when it had crashed, it showed proper outputs, like theres that rendering of a sphere ig, it had done it properly… but the game is the only thing it had crashed on
ok, it has installed , should i reboot or something ?
Yes, reboot, then we can look at inxi again to make sure its using the amdgpu driver now:
inxi -Gazy
Why is it taking forever to boot ?
I dont currently have my crystal ball hooked up to your network.
I cannot know. Did you have other updates? Is it performing fsck?
If for whatever reason it doesnt want to get to a graphical session you might try dropping to TTY, using runlevel3, or any of the other options here:
This had also happened the last time, I force shutdown and while in grub I chose advanced boot options and the first one without initram fs ig, that had worked
What happened?
What last time?
I am not sure I understand what this means.
If you do this … then maybe your system is trying to perform fsck (disk repair) and you keep interrupting it. And the cycle of a broken partition that needs fixing continues.
Maybe. Again, I dont know.
The last time my pc crashed with dri prime, I had force shutdown, and it has stuck on boot screen… so I force shutdown it again and the next time I was on GRUB, I chose the advanced boot options , and there the first option, the one without fallback initramfs
I did that now and it booted this time
Which would be … the normal boot option.
Were you using the fallback option previously?
Idk, I didn’t do anything, it had booted into the bootloop automatically
Well … maybe we will come back to that.
If you have a graphical system, and its not ‘fallback’ … then what does inxi look like now?