[Stable Update] 2022-12-06 - Kernels, Mesa, Plasma, Cinnamon, Nvidia, LibreOffice, Pipewire, Virtualbox

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Let this video play for at least 5 to 10 minutes, longer if possible.

(Open it in YouTube’s website, not in here!)

Preferably in fullscreen, or at least in “theater mode”.

Do not let it “auto-select” the resolution.

Select the 4K 60fps option (which is the highest resolution and framerate to choose from in the viewing options.)

Keep an eye on CPU temperatures (all cores and/or composite) throughout.

Keep an eye on CPU usage (all cores and/or composite) throughout.

Repeat the same exact thing after applying the Stable Updates and rebooting.

(Make sure to view the video in the same exact way before and after.)

UPDATE: See my post further down. @Begemoth made a good point, in which YouTube videos are unlike to be AVC or HEVC anymore, as they shifted towards more open video codecs now.

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Longer than 10 minutes in fullscreen then “theater mode”.

AMD CPU usage and temperature:

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AMD GPU usage and temperature:
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Do you know if this was the same before the mesa update?

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I think it’s the same as before.

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You have 16 cores, what do you expect will happen?

@winnie I don’t think 4K plays even now. Will see when i have time for that sh**. :smiley: I hoped there’s some benchmark I could do, instead of using my eyes and feelings.

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When I turned off hardware acceleration in Firefox. See the CPU usage is high when playing 4K video.

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I think that is normal.

@khandakershahi has the issue, because hardware acceleration would not work or disabled in Firefox.

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get this: 5.15.81
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: ast

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Tested it on Firefox for a few minutes: Roughly 15% - 20% CPU usage, max 25% reached at times only during fullscreen… temp can get to 60 C*, usual idle temperature is 45 C* with the CPU normally exceeding 80 C* at 100% use. I’m also on 16 cores, no overclock so it runs at the default 3.6 GHz to 4.4 GHz.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-7-3700x

Thing is that seems exactly like what I’ve always noticed. I didn’t check CPU usage thoroughly when watching Youtube in the past, but whenever I looked at CPU usage during 1080p played at 2x speed it was about 5%, exact same behavior I’m seeing right now. So I presume whatever got disabled now has always been turned off in some way at least on my hardware.

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My problems with nvidia hybrid not detecting external monitors didn’t get fixed with the update. I deleted manjaro on 3 machines, bought a desktop to escape this nightmare. Best of luck Manjaro team, it’s been a wonderful 7 years (and I mean that). You made me believe in the linux desktop, the KDE spin was masterful and well maintained. Was.

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Plasma sitll freezes randomly :frowning:

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I’m lost: no sound in google chrome or firefox but sound with clementine. I have no idea what to do and return to an backup of 4.12.22

Here some information

Manjaro-log-helper

My PC:

Generated on 2022-12-07 21:05:1670443533

#################### inxi -Fxzc0 ########################

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.157-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 Desktop: Xfce v: 4.16.1
    Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 81RS v: Lenovo Yoga S740-14IIL serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40709 WIN serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO
    v: BYCN39WW date: 05/28/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 63.9 Wh (97.9%) condition: 65.3/62.0 Wh (105.3%) volts: 17.1 min: 15.4
    model: LGC L19L4PD2 status: full
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-1065G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ice Lake rev: 5 cache:
    L1: 320 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1135 high: 1241 min/max: 400/3900 cores: 1: 728 2: 1241 3: 1210 4: 1200
    5: 1200 6: 1150 7: 1200 8: 1151 bogomips: 23968
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-11
    bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] vendor: Lenovo driver: nvidia v: 525.60.11 arch: Pascal
    bus-ID: 2b:00.0
  Device-3: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-5:5
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: nouveau
    dri: iris gpu: i915 resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.4 renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Plus Graphics (ICL GT2)
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: sof-audio-pci
    bus-ID: 00:1f.3
  Sound API: ALSA v: k5.10.157-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Interface: sndio v: N/A running: no
  Sound Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
  Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.61 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.3
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter type: USB driver: r8152 bus-ID: 2-1.4:4
  IF: enp0s13f0u1u4 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: pan1 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-10:8
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.86 TiB used: 450.5 GiB (23.7%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: MTFDHBA1T0TCK size: 953.87 GiB temp: 46.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EARX-00N0YB0 size: 931.51 GiB
  ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Kingston model: DataTraveler 2.0 size: 14.54 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 57.85 GiB used: 42.68 GiB (73.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 259.5 MiB used: 114.2 MiB (44.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.67 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 277 Uptime: 6m Memory: 15.2 GiB used: 2.04 GiB (13.4%) Init: systemd Compilers:
  gcc: 12.2.0 clang: 14.0.6 Packages: 1972 Client: Unknown Client: wrapper-2.0 inxi: 3.3.23

This Manjaro is useless without sound in browser!

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For Manjaro, you mean?))

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This is have no sence since YT uses VP9-AV1 codecs for the most of the times, but for 4k — always. H264 codec Youtube uses extremely rare.

There will be problems with other platforms (Twitch, for example) and the most offline videos.

We can still use mesa-git from AUR, h264-265 didn’t drop out there.

But still this is a shame, I don’t see any reasons for EU distro to drop h264-h265.

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@Zesko @MirceaKitsune @anon51566685 @Begemoth

Here is a more accurate test, based on what @Begemoth corrected me on. (Because YouTube videos don’t necessarily use AVC or HEVC, as they are shifting towards more open codecs. Hence, YouTube videos are not good tests.)

Let this video play for at least 5 to 10 minutes, longer if possible.

Preferably in fullscreen.

Keep an eye on CPU temperatures (all cores and/or composite) throughout.

Keep an eye on CPU usage (all cores and/or composite) throughout.

Repeat the same exact thing after applying the Stable Updates and rebooting.

The video is nearly 1GB in size, but it’s a high bitrate and resolution, and uses HEVC. It will be a good test on whether or not your GPU is using hardware-accelerated decoding.

A better test would be with a 4K video, but the size would be very large.

Here’s a 4K video that is 3 GB if you want to really give this a proper test:

https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1sRvHcH_BSVGELaPb2p_FFjXd53Mzl94L&export=download

Not just CPU temps and usage, but also how “smoothly” does it play?

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Little correction: h265 isn’t supported by browsers, just not able to play that codec.

We can use vainfo (terminal command), it shows which codecs you can accelerate and by what. That is mine, for example, with mesa-git:

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If you have AMD graphics and mesa from Manjaro repo, you will see output from this post. :unamused:

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well, it still is you just need a distro that hasn’t disabled the feature or compile it where it has. And so far as compiling Manjaro is probably one of the easiest.

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I was getting an issue with window positioning in kwin wayland. The window rules did not work. Deleting old rules and creating them again solved the issue

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Not gonna spend that much time on it, was just curious to test it to some extent. Did the first one in both VLC and Dragon Player: Only between 5% and 10% CPU usage, so basically same as Youtube in Firefox.

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On my Dell Ultrabook the kernel 6.1 fails to boot. Solution was fallback to 6.0. No other issues so far.