hi there, I know this sounds so standard, I searched the forum but couldnt find anything related:
i have very bad video performance in my browsers, for youtube videos and the likes, be it on firefox or vivaldi, on my old thinkpad x220.
other than that videos run well in smplayer , overall performance of manjaro is great.
videos often run well for a few minutes and then start to freeze or load or stutter…
any recommendations of what i could check? thank you!!!
thank you cscs!! I read through the page and tried some of the mods and tried to enable hardware acceleration and all but it does not seem to change. the weird thing is, that videos start to play well, sometimes play well for a few minutes and then i get the stuttering and loading etc. not sure if this points to some other problem? also that it affects both browsers i use in the same manner but none of the video players is kind of strange.
If you run some resource tracker … like htop … do you see anything like RAM being maxed out?
Might as well share general system info:
inxi -Fazy
the ram usage stays pretty low on 3,5% usage,
inxi -Fazy
System:
Kernel: 6.5.0-1-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=52fd1a07-74d7-4215-b689-5c0818e0c9e6 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: LENOVO product: 4291U7E v: ThinkPad X220
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 4291U7E serial: <superuser required>
UEFI-[Legacy]: LENOVO v: 8DET56WW (1.26 ) date: 12/01/2011
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 43.6 Wh (100.0%) condition: 43.6/62.6 Wh (69.6%)
volts: 12.4 min: 10.8 model: SANYO 45N1172 type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: full
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-2640M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Sandy Bridge
gen: core 2 level: v2 built: 2010-12 process: Intel 32nm family: 6
model-id: 0x2A (42) stepping: 7 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: 4 MiB desc: 1x4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 797 min/max: 800/3500 scaling: driver: intel_cpufreq
governor: schedutil cores: 1: 797 2: 797 3: 797 4: 797 bogomips: 22332
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
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_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 status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-6 code: Sandybridge
process: Intel 32nm built: 2011 ports: active: LVDS-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2,
DP-3, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3, VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:0126 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Chicony Lenovo Integrated Camera (0.3MP) driver: uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-1.6:8
chip-ID: 04f2:b217 class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915
display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.21x7.99")
s-diag: 414mm (16.31")
Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: AU Optronics 0x106c built: 2010 res: 1366x768
hz: 60 dpi: 125 gamma: 1.2 size: 277x156mm (10.91x6.14") diag: 318mm (12.5")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 1366x768
API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
vendor: Lenovo 6 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:1c20 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.5.0-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.77 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Lenovo ThinkPad T520
driver: e1000e v: kernel port: 5080 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:1502
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi
v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:0085 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: wg-mullvad state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM2045B (BDC-2.1) driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-1.4:7 chip-ID: 0a5c:217f
class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.08 TiB used: 1.24 TiB (59.8%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 maj-min: 179:0 vendor: SanDisk model: SD32G
size: 28.86 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B tech: SSD
serial: <filter> scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST2000LX001-1RG174
size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> fw-rev: SDM1 scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Transcend model: TS256GMSA230S
size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: S86A scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 238.47 GiB size: 233.67 GiB (97.99%)
used: 192.64 GiB (82.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 97.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 4493
Info:
Processes: 218 Uptime: 1d 51m wakeups: 1 Memory: total: 16 GiB
available: 15.51 GiB used: 2.47 GiB (15.9%) Init: systemd v: 253
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 clang: 15.0.7
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1420 libs: 402 tools: octopi,pamac,trizen,yay
pm: flatpak pkgs: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: xfce4-terminal
inxi: 3.3.29
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First things first … have you tried a not ‘release candidate’ kernel ?
(6.5 is pretty new)
5.15, 6.1 are both LTS worth checking.
Also…
And Im pretty sure you have BIOS updates…
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X220#Firmware
Yes, I tried all the other kernels , also the LTS kernel,
Bios update is a thing I will look into now, thank you!!
edit: only thing I am always afraid of is updating the bios, as you saw in this ancient version, haha… but I will give it a try this time!
I cannot judge if this is an issue for your system - or it has been fixed - after all a few months has passed
One speculates if using linux510 would work
sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux510
Probably not linked to your issue but it is recommendable to have a swap partition or swap file.
Maybe that 
has something to do with it? You’re just about boiling your CPU. 
ha, could be! no idea why it gets so crazy hot… this would explain why it starts normal and then the stuttering starts…
Obviously the cooling in your system is inadequate. Probably dust in the ventilation ports and/or fans, and most likely the thermal paste between the processor and the heat sink no longer doing its work.
Your machine is a laptop — those are already running hotter than the average desktop computer — and according to your inxi information, it’s already 12 years old. You had better have that machine taken apart, cleaned, have new thermal paste applied, and the heat sink reseated.
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