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Kietrov

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Registered: 2021-12-07

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[SOLED] KDE plasma stutters and even freezes completely NVIDIA

Hi!
I installed Arch like a month ago and ever since while using KDE and watching a video or in a call and interact with anything at all from my desktop (i.e changing virtual desktop or even alt+tab to another application) my audio will stutter like crazy and I will get a lot of screen tearing, disabling the compositor solves the issue sometimes, but doing that can also lead to my computer just freezing entirely and not letting me even change tty, requiring a reboot.

I am currently using a NVIDIA RTX 3070ti with proprietary driver version 495.44. 
I used the "journalctl" (with "--since=1 minute ago") command to check the log for and see exactly what went wrong and I saw a lot of errors that I do not yet comprehend and after looking them up online found very little information about them, here is the entire output: https://tknk.io/3lpG

This is what I found inside of /var/log/Xorg.0.log: https://tknk.io/RwSj

Please let me know if there is more information I need to provide and I hope you all have a great day!

Last edited by Kietrov (2021-12-11 01:28:51)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLED] KDE plasma stutters and even freezes completely NVIDIA

Mixing multiple compositors is usually not a good idea. What happens if your drop the CompositionPipeline directive (I'd generally recommend moving the entire xorg.conf out of the way for now)? but these modesetting blockings/failures don't read too good either, can you post more of the journal?

Last edited by V1del (2021-12-07 18:31:44)

Kietrov

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Registered: 2021-12-07

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Re: [SOLED] KDE plasma stutters and even freezes completely NVIDIA

Mixing multiple compositors is usually not a good idea. What happens if your drop the CompositionPipeline directive (I'd generally recommend moving the entire xorg.conf out of the way for now)? but these modesetting blockings/failures don't read too good either, can you post more of the journal?

Thank you for reply! so I disabled the composition pipeline settings from the nvidia-settings application, so far I haven't been able to replicate the issue but here is a longer version of the log as you requested: https://mega.nz/file/RhYTQITR#r8iZprzzQ … 7f2ZvuHedE

Kietrov

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Registered: 2021-12-07

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLED] KDE plasma stutters and even freezes completely NVIDIA

[UPDATE]
So after days of regular use and testing, the issue has not occurred again, disabling composition pipeline in nvidia-settings fixed it, marking as solved.