I just installed Manjaro and I am getting terrible glitching, same as in Ubuntu.
Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Picasso driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: amdgpu FAILED: ati unloaded: modesetting resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.36.0 5.6.15-1-MANJARO LLVM 10.0.0) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.7 direct render: Yes
Video drivers work fine in Windows 10.
How can I fix this?
Hi,
could you explain what you mean with “glitching”? Do mean tearing? Where? In the browser, the desktop, in linux games, wine games?
Thanks
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this happens in all apps and environments.
also in ubuntu, same thing. Windows is fine. Drivers?
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another example
Thanks, i would rather say that these are artifacts. And yes it is rather a bug in XFCE compositor.
A workaround would be:
Disabling display compositing in
Settings>Window Manager Tweaks>Compositor
OR
Changing vblank mode to xpresent and reboot:
xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/vblank_mode -t string -s "xpresent" --create
xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/vblank_mode -t string -s "xpresent" --create
results in
bash: xfconf-query: command not found
ok i went into system settings and unchecked “enable compositor on startup” .
is this the setting you are referring to?
restarted. no change, still getting artifacts.
Are you using XFCE? It looked like XFCE. If xfconf is not there, install it:
pamac install xfconf
im using KDE plasma
installing xfconf
executed the commands you suggested, now rebooting
ok… xfconf is a XFCE tool , so no need.
it appears to have downloaded and installed
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ====
Synchronizing package databases...
Resolving dependencies...
Checking inter-conflicts...
To install (2):
xfconf 4.14.3-1 extra 183.8 kB
libxfce4util 4.14.0-2 (Required By: xfconf) extra 125.2 kB
Total download size: 309.0 kB
Total installed size: 1.9 MB
Apply transaction ? [y/N] y
Download of libxfce4util (4.14.0-2) started
Download of xfconf (4.14.3-1) finished
Download of libxfce4util (4.14.0-2) finished
Checking keyring... [2/2]
Checking integrity... [2/2]
Loading packages files... [2/2]
Checking file conflicts... [2/2]
Checking available disk space... [2/2]
Installing libxfce4util (4.14.0-2)... [1/2]
Installing xfconf (4.14.3-1)... [2/2]
Running post-transaction hooks...
Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate... [1/1]
Transaction successfully finished.
[schlub@schlub-puter ~]$ xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/vblank_mode -t string -s "xpresent" --create
[schlub@schlub-puter ~]$
oh. crud.
isnt this a video driver issue?
is it possible to install the proprietary AMD drivers into manjaro?
yes, but won’t solve the problem, because it is only an additional part, the main part is what you are using. I dont use a amd gpu, but lets try some options:
Create file
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf
and add these lines there:
Section "Device"
Identifier "AMD"
Driver "amdgpu"
Option "DRI" "3"
Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection
then reboot.
Here are more options: amdgpu(4) — Arch manual pages
Just remove it:
pamac remove xfconf libxfce4util
file created, lines added, saved, hopefully i did it correctly.
xfconf removed.
restarting.
still glitching. 
Could you provide full system specs please? 
Type in terminal:
inxi -Fazy
System:
Kernel: 5.7.17-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.7-x86_64
root=UUID=e93b4b1e-3b79-4429-ab54-10306f986389 rw quiet
cryptdevice=UUID=ad58b2c0-1fe4-47da-ab15-9c30bb4ec978:luks-ad58b2c0-1fe4-47da-ab15-9c30bb4ec978
root=/dev/mapper/luks-ad58b2c0-1fe4-47da-ab15-9c30bb4ec978 apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.4 tk: Qt 5.15.0 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: B450 AORUS M v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: B450 AORUS M v: x.x serial: <filter>
UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: F50 date: 11/27/2019
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0
model: Logitech Marathon Mouse/Performance Plus M705 serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics
bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ family: 17 (23) model-id: 18 (24)
stepping: 1 microcode: 8108109 L2 cache: 2048 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
bogomips: 59118
Speed: 1258 MHz min/max: 1400/3700 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 1258 2: 1258 3: 1288 4: 1395 5: 1308 6: 1259 7: 1289 8: 1318
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
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 AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Picasso driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.0
chip ID: 1002:15d8
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: amdgpu
display ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1680x1050 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 444x277mm (17.5x10.9")
s-diag: 523mm (20.6")
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-0 res: 1680x1050 hz: 60 dpi: 90
size: 474x296mm (18.7x11.7") diag: 559mm (22")
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.37.0 5.7.17-2-MANJARO LLVM 10.0.1)
v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.6 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.1 chip ID: 1002:15de
Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.6 chip ID: 1022:15e3
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.7.17-2-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 03:00.0
chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless 8260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f000
bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 8086:24f3
IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.43 TiB used: 37.99 GiB (2.6%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB
size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 2B2QEXM7 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda model: 512GB SATA SSD size: 476.94 GiB block size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 3A0
scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB model: USB DISK 3.0 size: 57.70 GiB block size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: PMAP scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: 476.93 GiB size: 468.45 GiB (98.22%)
used: 37.99 GiB (8.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
Swap:
Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 43.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 43 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 250 Uptime: 12m Memory: 13.68 GiB used: 1.27 GiB (9.3%)
Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 1225 lib: 323
flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: konsole inxi: 3.1.05