Gnome and wayland problems

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Hello everybody

I installed the new gnome-20.2 image. Wayland is activated by default. My notebook has two graphics cards

  • NVIDIA GM107M [GeForce GTX 950M]
  • Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520]

I have Linux 5.4.85-1 installed. I also installed the proprietary graphics card drivers, through the Manjaro Settings Manager

  • video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee

In principle everything is OK except for the following:

  • Shutdown takes a long time
  • I have some bug reports
  • I cannot install Teamviewer because it only supports Xserver

First Questions:

  • what speaks against installing Xserver instead of Wayland?
  • what can I do to shutdown the system faster?

Second Question:
when I issue the following command to perform a system check, I get the following bug reports. Is this causing Wayland?

Command:

sudo journalctl -p 3 -xb

Error message:

lines 1-24/24 (END)...skipping...
-- Journal begins at Fri 2021-01-01 17:13:06 CET, ends at Sun 2021-01-03 13:50:36 CET. --
Jan 03 12:35:21 manjaro kernel: platform MSFT0101:00: failed to claim resource 1: [mem 0xfed40000-0xfed40fff]
Jan 03 12:35:21 manjaro kernel: acpi MSFT0101:00: platform device creation failed: -16
Jan 03 12:35:22 manjaro kernel: proc: Bad value for 'hidepid'
Jan 03 12:35:22 manjaro kernel: proc: Bad value for 'hidepid'
Jan 03 12:35:22 manjaro kernel: proc: Bad value for 'hidepid'
Jan 03 12:35:27 manjaro kernel: irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
Jan 03 12:35:27 manjaro kernel: handlers:
Jan 03 12:35:27 manjaro kernel: [<000000003947fdd2>] idma64_irq [idma64]
Jan 03 12:35:27 manjaro kernel: [<000000003fc9f3b6>] i2c_dw_isr
Jan 03 12:35:27 manjaro kernel: [<000000005fc6cf8e>] i801_isr [i2c_i801]
Jan 03 12:35:27 manjaro kernel: Disabling IRQ #16
Jan 03 12:35:31 manjaro kernel: proc: Bad value for 'hidepid'
Jan 03 12:35:38 manjaro gdm-password][1350]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Jan 03 12:35:43 manjaro sudo[1787]: pam_unix(sudo:auth): conversation failed
Jan 03 12:35:43 manjaro sudo[1787]: pam_unix(sudo:auth): auth could not identify password for [robi]
Jan 03 12:35:43 manjaro sudo[1787]: pam_unix(sudo:auth): auth could not identify password for [robi]
Jan 03 11:36:11 manjaro kernel: proc: Bad value for 'hidepid'
Jan 03 11:36:14 manjaro pipewire[2966]: Failed to receive portal pid: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get PID of name 'or>
Jan 03 11:36:18 manjaro kernel: proc: Bad value for 'hidepid'
Jan 03 11:54:11 manjaro kernel: proc: Bad value for 'hidepid'
Jan 03 12:53:49 manjaro kernel: proc: Bad value for 'hidepid'
Jan 03 13:04:36 manjaro kernel: proc: Bad value for 'hidepid'
Jan 03 13:13:38 manjaro kernel: proc: Bad value for 'hidepid'
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You can disable Wayland by going to layout setting and settings tab you will see Wayland is checked, just uncheck it and restart.

This way you will have UI working over x11.

Good luck.

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Take a look at second post at the latest update announcement. There is a solution for that issue, along any other issues of the sort, as in any other updates threads.

I have most of the same warnings. Typical Gnome stuff. Except the irq one, I don’t have that one, so it must be a thing of your particular firmware/motherboad. It doesn’t seem serious anyway. You could try to add “irqpoll” to your kernel boot parameters in grub as it says. Or even better, update your BIOS if there is a newer one.

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Many reasons, but on your own machine you can do what you want. Teamviewer+nvidia makes a strong case for using xorg for now.

A) long press power button, that’s what I do because I’m too lazy to do B or C
B) Find the root cause from your journal and fix it
C) reduce the wait time in configuration to 5 seconds instead to 2 minutes.

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I’ve had success with installing sddm on my computer with GNOME. I am however using gtx 1050 on a laptop. Optimus-manager is working good enough, and I didn’t even need to install gdm-prime (I might have to later) or configure any files.

I do not know how this will work with 390xx driver (I’m using 455xx).

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out of the box there ist no gdm-prime or manjaro-gdm-tweak installed. With sddm I have no experience. At the moment i’m booting with X11 instead of wayland and shutting down is just as fast as it used to be. For me this is a workaround for daily working but I try to finde a solution for future.

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I will try this solution from mizumi described in this post and report, what happens.

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If you are using xorg, then it might not matter. I log in to GNOME using xorg after installing gddm.

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