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jiv222

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Registered: 2019-01-14

Posts: 54

Recent issues in Arch with i3

On my Dell XPS 15 9570, Arch has been running smoothly for a month or so.  I decided to try getting nvidia-xrun-pm to work with KMS instead of bbswitch.  I started to see some slowdowns, which involved slower application launch times, and occasional hangs, so I tried uninstalling nvidia-xrun-pm and the xf86-video-intel driver. 

After uninstalling these, i3 experiences many issues, and hangs on basically every command.  Whether launching d-menu, urxvt, or navigating i3, each command hangs, and occasionally crash my entire system.  For example, when I launch d-menu, nearly 100% of my CPU is taken up by just that command, and d-menu will launch after a much longer than normal amount of time.

Also, polybar, which I use in i3, hasn't worked at all since uninstalling the intel driver.

I am suspicious that I am using the wrong PCI bridge, as the one listed in lspci is

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 07) (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: 00003000-00003fff [size=4K]
	Memory behind bridge: ec000000-ed0fffff [size=17M]
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000c0000000-00000000d1ffffff [size=288M]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport

Also, in dmesg this message is reoccurring:

[  118.229174] pci 0000:01:00.0: Refused to change power state, currently in D3

I have been trying to find out what is causing these issues, but haven't been able to find anything. 
Please let me know if I can provide anything else useful or relevant, I'll be glad to learn how to troubleshoot things like this in the future on my own.

Thanks