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UnderscoreUser

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Registered: 2022-08-02

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Desktop effects were restarted due to a graphics reset

About an hour ago, while on Discord, my screen suddenly froze, went black, then started popping out the "Desktop effects were restarted due to a graphics reset" message out in a glitchy way. I had to restart. After restart, most things seem to be going okay, except for the panel, now full black (used to be transparent), my system settings showing a strange bubble on certain tabs and Unity working weirdly (it had on a previous install of Arch (where I had a similar problem sometimes, with the desktop effects), where I re-installed Arch instead of fixing the problem, but I'd rather fix the issue than re-install) and there is a strange line in the middle of my screen that loads weirdly when scrolling (basically, just acts weird in many ways).
Running KDE with kernel ver. 5.18.15 with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile.
I am a newcomer, do tell me if additional information is required.

Last edited by UnderscoreUser (2022-08-02 13:18:38)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,714

Re: Desktop effects were restarted due to a graphics reset

Sounds like your compositor is disabled. Check

kcmshell5 kwincompositing

and make sure compositing is/can be enabled. Maybe also post

glxinfo -B #From mesa-utils

to check whether your GL in general is set up correctly.

UnderscoreUser

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Registered: 2022-08-02

Posts: 5

Re: Desktop effects were restarted due to a graphics reset

Compositor is enabled, it was my OpenGL that had crashed. Re-enabling it and rebooting seems to have solved the issue, but I am worried that maybe it might happen again.

glxinfo -B #From mesa-utils
name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: AMD (0x1002)
    Device: AMD YELLOW_CARP (LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.46, 5.18.15-arch1-1) (0x1681)
    Version: 22.1.4
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 512MB
    Unified memory: no
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.6
    Max compat profile version: 4.6
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.2
Memory info (GL_ATI_meminfo):
    VBO free memory - total: 66 MB, largest block: 66 MB
    VBO free aux. memory - total: 2891 MB, largest block: 2891 MB
    Texture free memory - total: 66 MB, largest block: 66 MB
    Texture free aux. memory - total: 2891 MB, largest block: 2891 MB
    Renderbuffer free memory - total: 66 MB, largest block: 66 MB
    Renderbuffer free aux. memory - total: 2891 MB, largest block: 2891 MB
Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info):
    Dedicated video memory: 512 MB
    Total available memory: 3584 MB
    Currently available dedicated video memory: 66 MB
OpenGL vendor string: AMD
OpenGL renderer string: AMD YELLOW_CARP (LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.46, 5.18.15-arch1-1)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 22.1.4
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.1.4
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 22.1.4
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

This is the output of the second command.

Last edited by UnderscoreUser (2022-08-02 22:26:29)