When I set my display mode to “External Only”, my cursor moves smoothly but the content continuously stutters.
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Kernel: 5.10.49-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
root=UUID=492ae27e-45b2-4229-883b-e0dae253ff87 rw quiet splash apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: GNOME 40.3 tk: GTK 3.24.30 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 40.0
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15-dk0xxx
v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: HP model: 85FC v: 42.42 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.33
date: 07/16/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 48.8 Wh (100.0%) condition: 48.8/52.5 Wh (93.0%)
volts: 12.8 min: 11.6 model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: Full
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.48 GiB used: 4.84 GiB (31.3%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-9300H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10)
microcode: EA cache: L2: 8 MiB bogomips: 38408
Speed: 804 MHz min/max: 800/2400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 804 2: 800 3: 815
4: 815 5: 846 6: 807 7: 812 8: 800
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat 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 pti pts
rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep 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
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q]
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nvidia v: 470.42.01
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f91
class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP Wide Vision HD
Integrated Webcam
type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:4 chip-ID: 05c8:03bc class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.11 compositor: gnome-shell driver:
loaded: modesetting,nvidia alternate: fbdev,intel,nouveau,nv,vesa
resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.4
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.49-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.31 running: no
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Realtek RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8822be v: N/A modules: rtw88_8822be
port: 3000 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b822 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Realtek Realtek Bluetooth 4.2 Adapter type: USB driver: btusb
v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:5 chip-ID: 0bda:b00b class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Logical:
Permissions: Unable to run lvs. Root privileges required.
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
v: 3.0 port: 6060 bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086.282a rev: 10 class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 24.01 GiB (5.0%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: SK Hynix
model: BC511 HFM512GDJTNI-82A0A size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: HPS0 temp: 31.9 C scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 117.04 GiB size: 114.65 GiB (97.95%)
used: 23.94 GiB (20.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7 maj-min: 259:7
label: N/A uuid: 492ae27e-45b2-4229-883b-e0dae253ff87
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%)
used: 80 MiB (31.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
label: SYSTEM uuid: 56D2-97F7
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 356.61 GiB
fs: <superuser required> label: Windows uuid: A82ED9002ED8C908
ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 534 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: 605082235081FFD0
ID-4: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 size: 500 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: 0B19-5C84
ID-5: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:6 size: 2 GiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: 8a2c3f2a-13f2-4fa5-b9a0-52ca85460762
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-2:2
info: KYE Systems (Mouse Systems) Scorpion M6-600 Gaming Mouse
type: Mouse,HID,Keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 300mA chip-ID: 0458:0179 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: 1-3:3 info: SINO WEALTH Gaming KB type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: 258a:002a class-ID: 0300
Device-3: 1-5:4 info: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP Wide Vision
HD Integrated Webcam
type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: 05c8:03bc class-ID: 0e02
Device-4: 1-14:5 info: Realtek Realtek Bluetooth 4.2 Adapter type: Bluetooth
driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA
chip-ID: 0bda:b00b class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 8 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: 29.8 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 279 Uptime: 12h 45m wakeups: 2 Init: systemd v: 248
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: note: see --pkg
pacman: 1244 lib: 292 flatpak: 0 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8
running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.05 ```That looks fine; are you using a converter to hook up the external monitor?
If not, please provide the output to:
xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3840 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm
1920x1080 60.00*+ 59.97 59.96 59.93 40.00
1680x1050 59.95 59.88
1400x1050 59.98
1600x900 59.99 59.94 59.95 59.82
1280x1024 60.02
1400x900 59.96 59.88
1280x960 60.00
1440x810 60.00 59.97
1368x768 59.88 59.85
1280x800 59.99 59.97 59.81 59.91
1280x720 60.00 59.99 59.86 59.74
1024x768 60.04 60.00
960x720 60.00
928x696 60.05
896x672 60.01
1024x576 59.95 59.96 59.90 59.82
960x600 59.93 60.00
960x540 59.96 59.99 59.63 59.82
800x600 60.00 60.32 56.25
840x525 60.01 59.88
864x486 59.92 59.57
700x525 59.98
800x450 59.95 59.82
640x512 60.02
700x450 59.96 59.88
640x480 60.00 59.94
720x405 59.51 58.99
684x384 59.88 59.85
640x400 59.88 59.98
640x360 59.86 59.83 59.84 59.32
512x384 60.00
512x288 60.00 59.92
480x270 59.63 59.82
400x300 60.32 56.34
432x243 59.92 59.57
320x240 60.05
360x202 59.51 59.13
320x180 59.84 59.32
HDMI-1-0 connected 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 477mm x 268mm
1920x1080 60.00*+ 59.94 50.00
1680x1050 59.95
1600x900 60.00
1440x900 59.89
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1280x800 59.81
1280x720 60.00 59.94 50.00
1152x864 75.00
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
800x600 75.00 72.19 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00
720x480 59.94
640x480 75.00 72.81 59.94
DP-1-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
1680x1050 (0x49) 146.250MHz -HSync +VSync
h: width 1680 start 1784 end 1960 total 2240 skew 0 clock 65.29KHz
v: height 1050 start 1053 end 1059 total 1089 clock 59.95Hz
1280x1024 (0x50) 108.000MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 1280 start 1328 end 1440 total 1688 skew 0 clock 63.98KHz
v: height 1024 start 1025 end 1028 total 1066 clock 60.02Hz
1280x800 (0x5a) 83.500MHz -HSync +VSync
h: width 1280 start 1352 end 1480 total 1680 skew 0 clock 49.70KHz
v: height 800 start 803 end 809 total 831 clock 59.81Hz
1024x768 (0x61) 65.000MHz -HSync -VSync
h: width 1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1344 skew 0 clock 48.36KHz
v: height 768 start 771 end 777 total 806 clock 60.00Hz
800x600 (0x70) 40.000MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 800 start 840 end 968 total 1056 skew 0 clock 37.88KHz
v: height 600 start 601 end 605 total 628 clock 60.32Hz
800x600 (0x71) 36.000MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 800 start 824 end 896 total 1024 skew 0 clock 35.16KHz
v: height 600 start 601 end 603 total 625 clock 56.25Hz
640x480 (0x7d) 25.175MHz -HSync -VSync
h: width 640 start 656 end 752 total 800 skew 0 clock 31.47KHz
v: height 480 start 490 end 492 total 525 clock 59.94Hz
That’s weird: a GeForce GTX 1650 should be able to run an external monitor on FHD and you have the correct driver version installed.
- How did you install the nVidia drivers?
- What are you doing exactly? (E.G. Are you closing the lid of your laptop?)
During Manjaro’s setup for dual boot, I simply selected the “proprietary drivers” option which lead to installing those Nvidia drivers. And no, I use both screens.
If you don’t use a converter: Have you tried changing the HDMI cable already?
If yes: What’s the output of nvidia-smi while the stuttering is happening???
Sun Jul 25 00:26:47 2021
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 470.57.02 Driver Version: 470.57.02 CUDA Version: 11.4 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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 Off | N/A |
| N/A 37C P0 6W / N/A | 5MiB / 3911MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1409 G /usr/lib/Xorg 4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
And it’s not a physical problem given that the second monitor works fine on Windows.
That doesn’t mean anything: Windows could be lowering the resolution / colour depth and performing other shenanigans behind the scenes without you knowing.
Having said that, you do have a weird problem, because everything looks OK from a system perspective and a GeForce GTX 1650 should have no issue running an external monitor on FHD so let me try to summarize your system as I understand it:
- Internal laptop screen + External monitor hooked up directly to the HDMI port without a converter and the HDMI cable has been changed to an HDMI cable known to be working on another system (E.G Blu-ray -TV cable)
- Both monitors are extended to one huge desktop
- 5.10 LTS kernel
- GeForce GTX 1650 with 4G VRAM
Symptom:
When moving a window from the internal laptop screen to the external monitor, the app window start “stuttering” although both monitors are running at 60Hz at the same resolution.
Is my understanding correct?
I’ve got the same (or similar) issue. When connecting to an external monitor only, in my case, a 32" 4k, 60 Hz; GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile, 470 driver.
State: External monitor only, disable laptop screen.
Symptom: Mouse moves smoothly, input and output lag on any mouse click, keyboard press, program execution.
Observations: Lowering resolution or refresh rate of the external monitor has no affect, lag still exists. When I re-enable the laptop screen, it displays a fraction of the higher resolution external monitor, but the lag is gone!
I can’t paste system details, error on posting a weblink. Nor can I paste a screen shot of the text, error stating I can’t embed media.
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It is against the forum rules to hijack a thread. The better way to get involved in a thread is to:
- post a solution
or - subscribe to the thread by clicking the Tracking button below the post so you’re still informed of any solutions that are posted to a problem similar to yours.
Although I’m a moderator, this is not an official warning as this is your first post here, just trying to help you become a better forum citizen.
Thanks, Fabby. I considered starting a new thread, but since the OP and I have the same graphics card and apparently the same symptoms, I thought my details were relevant and might help the community find a solution.
The problem only exists when I run the external monitor alone. As clutterking said, the cursor works smoothly but there’s a 3-second lag when clicking or moving anything.
And today, after running system updates, my second monitor doesn’t work at all and when I try to launch the NVIDIA X Server app, it doesn’t execute.
Since you have a hybrid card I would assume you use the bumblebee config?
As I remember correctly, on hybrid cards the nvidia card is hard wired to the external output. Intel is used for the laptop screen. So, to use the second screen, it is needed to use the nvidia card as a sink of the primary (intel) and loop the signal through it.
Bumblebee is in that case a big hack, since Nvidia does not support it. It uses VirtualGL:
In short:
VirtualGL redirects an application’s OpenGL/GLX commands to a separate X server (that has access to a 3D graphics card), captures the rendered images, and then streams them to the X server that actually handles the application.
VirtualGL - ArchWiki
So the shutter comes from frame drops or delay when rendering the second screen with OpenGL.
Use for example optimus to use the nvidia card only. I would say this will stop the shuttering.
Or remove the nvidia driver and stay on open source drivers. There you can use a real kernel based sink and not VirtualGL.
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@clutterking @Despair
This happens when you are in hybrid mode (the default Manjaro NVIDIA installation),thats a bug that NVIDIA has not fixed yet,the workaround for this is to switch to NVIDIA mode with optimus-manager
Install optimus-manager from the official repositories
pamac install optimus-manager
Since you are using GNOME,you need to follow 2 additional steps
- The default
gdmpackage from the Archlinux and Manjaro repositories is not compatible with optimus-manager, so you must replace it with this patched version : gdm-prime (also replaceslibgdm). The patch was written by Canonical for Ubuntu and simply adds two script entry points specifically for Prime switching. The package is otherwise identical to the official one.- Gnome launches Wayland sessions by default, which are incompatible with optimus-manager. To force Xorg sessions, You need to edit the file
/etc/gdm/custom.confand remove the#before the line#WaylandEnable=false.
When finished,reboot the computer,now you can switch between integrated (use intel card only),hybrid (intel + nvidia) (the one you are currently using) and nvidia mode (the one you want for external monitor)
optimus-manager --switch integrated
optimus-manager --switch hybrid
optimus-manager --switch nvidia
Then,logout and login again,you should be now using the nvidia mode,connect to the external monitor and everything should be fluid.
you can verify what mode you are right now with
optimus-manager --print-mode
and you can see what process are currently using the nvidia card
nvidia-smi
bumblebee are loong deprecated,they are mostly for older cards now,the newer way now is with official nvidia drivers.
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It worked, thanks!
I have the same problem as Despair. This is fascinating its necessary completely disable the other GPU.
Hopefully NVIDIA will fix in the future.
KDE seems to have issues with optimus manager. Fix is to run
prime-offload at init.
Unfortunately for me I get stuck
A GPU switch from integrated to nvidia is pending. Log out and log back in to apply. Current GPU mode : integrated
Even after logging out multiple times same, only uses iGPU but dGPU is at 24W.
Update:
Got it working after commenting out the two lines in /etc/sddm.conf per
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