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I installed virtualbox two weeks ago, along with associated kernel modules. Both the guest and host OSs didn't work as smoothly as one would like. However, when I turned off the guest OS, Arch would still stutter. Notably, the Google Chrome window freezes regularly, especially while scrolling, playing videos, or rendering web animation. A mouse click or keyboard input makes it resume the latest state of the screen. Other things I've noticed are slower installs, problems with copying and pasting large amounts of text (> 10 MB), and slow rendering of window animations.
I've removed virtualbox and the kernel modules, upgraded all packages, and restarted the computer, but the problem persists.
Here's the output of lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 05)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
lspci: Unable to load libkmod resources: error -12
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 05) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff [size=4K]
Memory behind bridge: de000000-df0fffff [size=17M]
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000b0000000-00000000c1ffffff [size=288M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 591b (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 11ad
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 124
Memory at dd000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at 70000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at f000 [size=64]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 31) (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Sunrise Point-H USB 3.0 xHCI Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 120
Memory at df310000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H Thermal subsystem (rev 31)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Sunrise Point-H Thermal subsystem
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 18
Memory at df32e000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: intel_pch_thermal
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H CSME HECI #1 (rev 31)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Sunrise Point-H CSME HECI
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 122
Memory at df32d000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: mei_me
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 31) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Sunrise Point-H SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 121
Memory at df328000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Memory at df32c000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at f090 [size=8]
I/O ports at f080 [size=4]
I/O ports at f060 [size=32]
Memory at df32b000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev f1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff [size=4K]
Memory behind bridge: a2000000-a21fffff [size=2M]
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000a2200000-00000000a23fffff [size=2M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev f1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=3b, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff [size=4K]
Memory behind bridge: c4000000-dc0fffff [size=385M]
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000080000000-00000000a1ffffff [size=544M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Bus: primary=00, secondary=3c, subordinate=3c, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: None
Memory behind bridge: None
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: None
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #14 (rev f1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Bus: primary=00, secondary=3d, subordinate=3d, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff [size=4K]
Memory behind bridge: df200000-df2fffff [size=1M]
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: None
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #15 (rev f1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Bus: primary=00, secondary=3e, subordinate=3e, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: None
Memory behind bridge: df100000-df1fffff [size=1M]
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: None
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H LPC Controller (rev 31)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Sunrise Point-H LPC Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PMC (rev 31)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Sunrise Point-H PMC
Flags: fast devsel
Memory at df324000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=16K]
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation CM238 HD Audio Controller (rev 31)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] CM238 HD Audio Controller
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 125
Memory at df320000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Memory at df300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H SMBus (rev 31)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Sunrise Point-H SMBus
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 16
Memory at df32a000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at f040 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 3GB] (rev ff) (prog-if ff)
!!! Unknown header type 7f
3d:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2500 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Killer E2500 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at df200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
I/O ports at d000 [size=128]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: alx
3e:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275 (rev 78)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 123
Memory at df100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifiLast edited by yashtewari (2018-04-03 05:41:34)
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Do you have your stuff set up in a way that the nvidia GPU is doing the graphics on the laptop's screen? If yes, there's problems right now with the newest nvidia drivers and Chrome. Try switching to Chromium in the Arch repos as that one has a patch applied to it, or wait until Google releases the next version of Chrome with hopefully that same patch applied.
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Do you have your stuff set up in a way that the nvidia GPU is doing the graphics on the laptop's screen? If yes, there's problems right now with the newest nvidia drivers and Chrome. Try switching to Chromium in the Arch repos as that one has a patch applied to it, or wait until Google releases the next version of Chrome with hopefully that same patch applied.
I'm pretty sure that the screen is handled by integrated graphics. I tried Chromium just be sure... same problems.
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