Hello!
I recently updated to 6.1 via pacman -Syu, and started having problems with one of my screens flickering. Though it only happens in certain conditions.
I have two monitors, one 1920x1080 240hz monitor and one 2560x1440 144hz monitor.
I have the 2560 screen left-rotated and the other in the normal orientation.
If i have both screens at their max refresh rates (240hz and 144hz respectively) while also having the 2560 monitor left oriented, I get screen flickering on the 1920 screen.
Setting the 1920 screen refresh rate to 60hz fixes the problem. Setting the 2560 screen to regular orientation instead of left orientation also fixes the problem.
The problem is present in both i3 and xfce, and I’ve tried killing picom which made no difference either.
It seems to be related to mouse movement in some way also though. If I let the mouse sit still for a few seconds, it seems to stop the flickering until I start using the mouse again.
Only the 1920 screen flickers. It flickers when I move the mouse, but not all the time. 10 seconds of mouse movement generates 3-5 flickers maybe.
nvidia-smi shows this:
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 525.89.02 Driver Version: 525.89.02 CUDA Version: 12.0 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce ... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| 0% 48C P5 37W / 175W | 561MiB / 8192MiB | 39% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 2184 G /usr/lib/Xorg 356MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2281 G alacritty 8MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2427 G ...020387278939323895,131072 142MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3404 G alacritty 8MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3562 G alacritty 8MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
inxi:
~ ➜ inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --width
System:
Kernel: 6.1.12-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1-x86_64
root=UUID=bcbad29f-cd0e-4e57-8257-345dccd46e89 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=f1776472-c640-42dd-983f-18f98b518229
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: i3 v: 4.22 info: i3bar vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME Z370-P II v: Rev X.0x
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 0411
date: 09/21/2018
Memory:
RAM: total: 31.29 GiB used: 4.37 GiB (14.0%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-9600K bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Coffee Lake
gen: core 9 level: v3 note: check built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xC (12) microcode: 0xF0
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 384 KiB
desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB L3: 9 MiB
desc: 1x9 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4600 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800
bogomips: 44412
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush
clflushopt 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 hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida
intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor
movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm
pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp
rep_good sdbg sep smap smep smx 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 xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
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: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling,
PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2070] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: nvidia v: 525.89.02 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 525.xx+
status: current (as of 2023-02) arch: Turing code: TUxxx
process: TSMC 12nm FF built: 2018-22 pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f02
class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.7 compositor: Picom v: git-b700a driver:
X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa
gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3360x2560 s-dpi: 93 s-size: 917x698mm (36.10x27.48")
s-diag: 1152mm (45.37")
Monitor-1: DP-4 pos: bottom-l res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 90
size: 544x303mm (21.42x11.93") diag: 623mm (24.52") modes: N/A
Monitor-2: HDMI-0 pos: top-right res: 1440x2560 dpi: 93
size: 392x697mm (15.43x27.44") diag: 800mm (31.48") modes: N/A
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 525.89.02 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX
2070/PCIe/SSE2 direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
bus-ID: 1-6.2:5 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 08bb:2902 class-ID: 0300
chip-ID: 8086:a2f0 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Texas Instruments PCM2902 Audio Codec type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
Sound API: ALSA v: k6.1.12-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 running: no
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK PRIME B450M-A driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: Unknown
lanes: 63 link-max: gen: 6 speed: 64 GT/s port: d000 bus-ID: 04:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: ASUSTek USB-N53 802.11abgn Network Adapter [Ralink RT3572]
type: USB driver: rt2800usb bus-ID: 1-4:2 chip-ID: 0b05:179d class-ID: 0000
serial: <filter>
IF: wlp0s20f0u4 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 82.54 GiB (8.9%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 39.06 GiB size: 38.15 GiB (97.67%) used: 26.48 GiB (69.4%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 label: N/A
uuid: bcbad29f-cd0e-4e57-8257-345dccd46e89
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%)
used: 292 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 label: NO_LABEL
uuid: C919-25E5
ID-3: /home raw-size: 195.31 GiB size: 191.19 GiB (97.89%)
used: 56.06 GiB (29.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7 maj-min: 8:7 label: N/A
uuid: 3b122eae-ee4c-44e1-ade3-ccb9cf04d48f
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 15.62 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 label: N/A
uuid: f1776472-c640-42dd-983f-18f98b518229
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 512 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A
uuid: 51B1-91F1
ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 16 MiB fs: ext4 label: N/A
uuid: 3d2cde99-654c-4a17-a3fc-ea3b7f72307f
ID-3: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 628.26 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
uuid: D2A6C7ABA6C78E83
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-4:2 info: ASUSTek USB-N53 802.11abgn Network Adapter [Ralink
RT3572] type: Network driver: rt2800usb interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s power: 450mA chip-ID: 0b05:179d class-ID: 0000
serial: <filter>
Hub-2: 1-6:3 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0610 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-6.1:4 info: Logitech G203 Gaming Mouse type: Mouse,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 300mA
chip-ID: 046d:c084 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 1-6.2:5 info: Texas Instruments PCM2902 Audio Codec
type: Audio,HID driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4
rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 08bb:2902 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: 1-6.3:6 info: TG3 RGB POK3R type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA
chip-ID: 0f39:0617 class-ID: 0300
Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 10 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 2-6:2 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.2 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 05e3:0626 class-ID: 0900
Hub-5: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-6: 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: 35.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 50 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Info:
Processes: 236 Uptime: 1h 7m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 252
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.1 clang: 15.0.7
Packages: 1250 pm: pacman pkgs: 1242 libs: 333 tools: pamac,yay pm: flatpak
pkgs: 0 pm: snap pkgs: 8 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 running-in: alacritty inxi: 3.3.25
Let me know if I can run any commands or share any relevant logs!
Any help is appreciated.