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ramfs

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Registered: 2024-11-06

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ACPI BIOS Errors, touchpad and graphics lags (Asus HX 370)

Brand new Asus Zenbook S16 HX 370 laptop - encounter touchpad and graphics lags.

dmesg shows ACPI errors:

[ 0.253742] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Failure creating named object [\_SB.PCI0.GPP4._S0W], AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20240322/dswload2-326)
[ 0.253749] fbcon: Taking over console
[ 0.253755] ACPI Error: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name lookup/catalog (20240322/psobject-220)
[ 0.253757] ACPI: Skipping parse of AML opcode: Method (0x0014)
[ 0.253767] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Failure creating named object [\_SB.PCI0.GPP4._PR0], AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20240322/dswload2-326)
[ 0.253770] ACPI Error: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name lookup/catalog (20240322/psobject-220)
[ 0.253774] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Failure creating named object [\_SB.PCI0.GPP4._PR3], AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20240322/dswload2-326)
[ 0.253777] ACPI Error: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name lookup/catalog (20240322/psobject-220) 

uname -a
Linux arch 6.11.6-arch1-1

also tried with kernel parameters

acpi_osi=\! acpi_osi=Linux

with no success.

Can i detect if it's a hardware issue or just yet unsupported in linux kernel (touchpad and amdgpu 890m) ?

gromit

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Re: ACPI BIOS Errors, touchpad and graphics lags (Asus HX 370)

Is this also an issue with the "linux-lts" kernel package? Additionally you can test the latest mainline kernel release candidate:

sudo pacman -U https://pkgbuild.com/\~gromit/linux-bisection-kernels/linux-mainline-6.12rc6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

V1del

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Re: ACPI BIOS Errors, touchpad and graphics lags (Asus HX 370)

ACPI Errors are generally normal and seldom cause for concern

Please provide information with regards to what your actual issues are, e..g. what exactly "lags", post a xorg and a journal log with

sudo journalctl -b

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

ramfs

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Registered: 2024-11-06

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Re: ACPI BIOS Errors, touchpad and graphics lags (Asus HX 370)

Turned off completely Variable refresh rate in KDE Display settings.
It feels better now, but doesn't solves main issues:

Graphics - overall such software as Kitty or Firefox feels much less snappy with more input / event lags, like opening new tabs in Firefox or typing text in Kitty.
Touchpad - is extremely sensitive (not about cursor speed) to my fingers, even when the thumb on the left hand is very very close to top left touchpad corner but barely touch it - cursor reacts.

My observations so far:

- journalctl doesn't show any errors, only KDE typical warnings which i encounter every day on another unproblematic laptop (journalctl -b, also watched logs in real time during lags journalctl -fn 700)
-

sudo watch -n 1 cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/1/amdgpu_pm_info

shows max frequency at 900 Mhz with 4-5w power consumption. Even grahics on my 5800H jumps around 7-15w up to 1600Mhz when i just typing or looking into Kitty terminal (it's HA accelerated).
- amdgpu VCN is always off, Firefox doesn't use HA at all:

media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled = true
gfx.webrender.all = true

yay -Q | rg mesa

libva-mesa-driver 1:24.2.6-1
mesa 1:24.2.6-1
mesa-utils 9.0.0-5

vainfo shows Mesa Driver and a lot of VAEntrypointVLD, VAEntrypointEncSlice entries.
It feels like something with amdgpu...

EDIT:

i also tried 6.12rc6 kernel, but during 4k video playback in firefox it just makes screen totally black or full of artifacts and freezes completely without reacting to keyboard.

Currently i'm typing on a very old laptop with Ryzen 5800H with OLED 120Hz (new Zenbook S16 OLED 120Hz too) and it feels so much snappier !

EDIT:
also tried to disable PSR - 

amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10

- didn't notice any difference

Last edited by ramfs (2024-11-06 23:08:08)