Firefox’s seems to work fine, but I have issues with Lagrange browser, Atom text editor, NewsFlash, Mousepad, Foliate (with infinity scrolling on), Pamac. Basically everywhere or almost everywhere where there is a lot of text to scroll.
completely reinstalling with config files worked, but only on first invocation of chrome. after closing chrome and reinvoking, it continues without video acceleration
so, somewhat auto-detects some staff and changes it’s work mode which leads to video accel. to switch off. the question is to unveil that “somewhat”, “staff” and work modes.
may be to:
install again,
get a copy of all config settings,
execute twice,
close the app and compare current config with initial directly after install.
?
so after going in circles here is the solution. like i said vid. accel. works only the first time you invoke chrome after clearing the config. every subsequent invocation results in vid. accel. being disabled. then after comparing GPU settings in chrome:///gpu page, i found that ozone platform is loaded only successive chrome invokes. disabling ozone (via flag), gets video acceleration back.
i’m on X11 and still cant makeout whether ozone is meant to help X11 or xwayland users. with G deciding that ozone to be enabled by default, there can be a performance penalty if it is disabled. however it seems it is the ony way to get v. acceleration back.
xorg-server and xorg-server-common update from 1.20.13-2 to 1.20.13-3 the other day left me with the inability to use the external monitor on my Dell laptop. No matter what settings changes I made, all I can see on the external monitor was a screen with the xfce mouse. The laptop monitor worked fine. Reverting back to 1.20.13-2 fixed the issue. I can reinstall and post logs, if needed. I am not sure which logs, though.
Update regarding issue with xorg-server and xorg-server-common: I grabbed the PKGBUILD from gitlab and built without the Debian patches and all works fine.
I was met with a black screen after login (xfce and plasma), had to go to tty and use startx. I was using kernel 5.13.13, so I tried to change to 5.10.61 and it worked. I’m not sure when it started but I’m not seeing that grub interface before login (which would make easy the job to change kernels)
Since 5.14 RC1 (and still with the stable version) I have the problem that the screen brightness does not seem to work and everything is darker. When I boot into any other kernel everything is fine.
E: btrfs returned an error: 256
E: Failed to query subvolume quota
E: ERROR: can't list qgroups: quotas not enabled
but looks like it updated:
$ pacman -Qi timeshift | grep Version
Version : 20.11.1+28+gefed117-1
$
details
$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronising package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community 6.6 MiB 5.17 MiB/s 00:01 [####################################################################] 100%
chaotic-aur is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Package (1) Old Version New Version Net Change Download Size
community/timeshift 20.11.1.r28.gefed117-2 20.11.1+28+gefed117-1 0.00 MiB 0.94 MiB
Total Download Size: 0.94 MiB
Total Installed Size: 3.86 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages...
timeshift-20.11.1+28+gefed117-1-x86_64 957.9 KiB 3.05 MiB/s 00:00 [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [####################################################################] 100%
:: Running pre-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Creating Timeshift snapshot before upgrade...
Using system disk as snapshot device for creating snapshots in BTRFS mode
Mounted '/dev/dm-0 (nvme0n1p2)' at '/run/timeshift/backup'
E: ERROR: can't list qgroups: quotas not enabled
E: btrfs returned an error: 256
E: Failed to query subvolume quota
Creating new backup...(BTRFS)
Saving to device: /dev/dm-0, mounted at path: /run/timeshift/backup
Created directory: /run/timeshift/backup/timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-08-31_19-21-15
Created subvolume snapshot: /run/timeshift/backup/timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-08-31_19-21-15/@
Created control file: /run/timeshift/backup/timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-08-31_19-21-15/info.json
BTRFS Snapshot saved successfully (0s)
Tagged snapshot '2021-08-31_19-21-15': ondemand
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E: ERROR: can't list qgroups: quotas not enabled
E: btrfs returned an error: 256
E: Failed to query subvolume quota
E: ERROR: can't list qgroups: quotas not enabled
E: btrfs returned an error: 256
E: Failed to query subvolume quota
E: ERROR: can't list qgroups: quotas not enabled
E: btrfs returned an error: 256
E: Failed to query subvolume quota
E: ERROR: can't list qgroups: quotas not enabled
E: btrfs returned an error: 256
E: Failed to query subvolume quota
E: ERROR: can't list qgroups: quotas not enabled
E: btrfs returned an error: 256
E: Failed to query subvolume quota
/dev/dm-0 is mounted at: /run/timeshift/backup, options: rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=5,subvol=/
E: ERROR: can't list qgroups: quotas not enabled
E: btrfs returned an error: 256
E: Failed to query subvolume quota
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Removing snapshot: 2021-08-30_16-35-57
Deleting subvolume: @ (Id:443)
Deleted subvolume: @ (Id:443)
Destroying qgroup: 0/443
E: Failed to destroy qgroup: '0/443'
E: Failed to remove snapshot: 2021-08-30_16-35-57
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found theme: /usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/theme.txt
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.14-x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-5.14-x86_64.img
Found initrd fallback image: /boot/initramfs-5.14-x86_64-fallback.img
Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions.
Systems on them will not be added to the GRUB boot configuration.
Check GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER documentation entry.
Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings ...
Detecting snapshots ...
Info: Separate boot partition not detected
Found snapshot: 2021-08-31 19:21:15 | timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-08-31_19-21-15/@
Found snapshot: 2021-08-31 17:17:10 | timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-08-31_17-17-10/@
Found snapshot: 2021-08-30 18:00:13 | timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-08-30_18-00-13/@
Found 3 snapshot(s)
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+/memtest.bin
done
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) upgrading timeshift [####################################################################] 100%
==> Attempting to enable Cronie services...
==> Attempting to enable Cronie services...
New optional dependencies for timeshift
grub-btrfs: BtrfS snapshots in grub [installed]
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/4) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(2/4) Refreshing PackageKit...
(3/4) Updating icon theme caches...
(4/4) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache...
$
sda, sdb are just USB card reader.
Using btrfs + encryption.
$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 1 0B 0 disk
sdb 8:16 1 59.6G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 1 58.6G 0 part
├─sdb2 8:18 1 32M 0 part
└─sdb3 8:19 1 1023M 0 part
nvme0n1 259:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 300M 0 part /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 465.5G 0 part
└─luks-4e980928-8101-47d7-be34-1060c6d8836f 254:0 0 465.5G 0 crypt /run/timeshift/backup
/var/cache
/var/log
/home
/
$
$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 5.14.0-0-MANJARO (builduser@fv-az83-697) (gcc (GCC) 11.1.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.36.1) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 30 10:49:07 UTC 2021
$ pacman -Qi linux514 btrfs-progs | grep Version
Version : 5.14.0-0
Version : 5.13.1-1
Of this is observed on 5.14 only, then it’s most likely an upstream issue and should be reported there (kernel.org).
Another option is to create a separate thread here in Support section asking assistance but I guess it will end up with a bug report to kernel developers, too.
Yes! Disabling ozone works. Chrome broke gpu acc. after the update, even though the chrome-flags.config file was the same and the gpu page showed that hardware acc. was enabled.
Thanks. Although would like to know why does ozone break gpu acc.
Edit: Just noticed that the Arch wiki page recommends disabling ozone on X11 as well.