Strange Graphical issues on System76 Gazelle [gaze17]

Goldensliv · 2022-09-06 04:42:25

Installed arch on a System76 gazelle (RTX 3050) with linux-lts kernel and nvidia-lts drivers.
Desktop Environment is KDE Plasma

Everything seems to working fine other than very strange distortion and flickering when moving the mouse cursor around. The position of the distortion seems to be directly tied to the y position of the mouse cursor. Additionally, the icons on the bottom left of the panel all seem to have their positions stacked on one another. I have installed all the latest graphics and system76 drivers.

Distorted Desktop (mouse cursor at top of screen)
https://i.hateithere.xyz/downloads/fulldistort.png

Distorted Desktop (mouse cursor at middle of screen)
https://i.hateithere.xyz/downloads/halfdistort.png

Bugged Stacked Icons
https://i.hateithere.xyz/downloads/badicons.png

Mod edit Replace oversized images with links -- V1del

Last edited by V1del (2022-09-06 07:07:48)

V1del · 2022-09-06 07:24:56

Please don't embed huge images directly https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … s_and_code

There used to be some of these on a Wayland session when driven by the nvidia GPU, though afaik this should be fixed assuming you are running current packages. Does this system have just an RTX or does it have an integrated gpu as well? If it has integrated, make sure you do not have xf86-video-intel installed, that's too old for your chipset.

Other than that please post logs, i.e. at the very least your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and

sudo journalctl -b

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

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Goldensliv · 2022-09-06 08:21:36

The laptop has both an RTX and integrated graphics. I have updated all packages and removed xf86-video-intel and the issues still persist.

journalctl log
http://0x0.st/ofKe.txt

Xorg log
http://0x0.st/ofK2.txt

V1del · 2022-09-06 08:34:36

Since this is fairly recent HW and the LTS kernel is nearing a year old already, have you tried reproducing on the non LTS kernel?

Other than that some common candidates here can be intels psr so try adding i915.enable_psr=0 to your kernel commandline.

Last edited by V1del (2022-09-06 08:38:49)

Goldensliv · 2022-09-06 08:45:48

Attempting to boot with the non LTS kernel results in the system not booting at all with text on screen that I am not sure how to retrieve in log form. However it seems to have something to do with bluetooth.

cfr · 2022-09-06 17:18:46

You don't have the intel driver installed. That's good. But you do seem to have fbdev and vesa. Uninstall those. The general advice is to only install the drivers you need.

Last edited by cfr (2022-09-06 17:19:10)

V1del · 2022-09-06 20:13:14

Goldensliv wrote:

Attempting to boot with the non LTS kernel results in the system not booting at all with text on screen that I am not sure how to retrieve in log form. However it seems to have something to do with bluetooth.

After a failed boot you can post the journal from the failed boot with e.g.

sudo journalctl -b-1 #For the boot prior to your current one

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

Goldensliv · 2022-09-07 01:46:24

Failed boot journalctl (non lts kernel)
http://0x0.st/ofAj.txt

Last edited by Goldensliv (2022-09-07 01:59:22)

V1del · 2022-09-07 08:39:56

Your nvidia card fails to initialize here due to

Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: 
Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: traps: Missing ENDBR: _nv011437rm+0x0/0x10 [nvidia]
Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:253!
Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: CPU: 6 PID: 608 Comm: systemd-modules Tainted: P           OE     5.19.7-arch1-1 #1 e547dd5fb390dbeba7568a7a787b4abde4680315
Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: Hardware name: System76 Gazelle/Gazelle, BIOS 2022-07-27_00cebe9 07/25/2022
Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: RIP: 0010:exc_control_protection+0xc2/0xd0
Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: Code: 8b 93 80 00 00 00 be fa 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 e6 52 a8 93 e8 31 1e 4c ff e9 72 ff ff ff 48 c7 c7 cd 52 a8 93 e8 c4 15 fb ff 0f 0b <0f> 0b 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 66 0f 1f 00 55 53 48 89
Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffb14e4182fb98 EFLAGS: 00010002
Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: RAX: 0000000000000033 RBX: ffffb14e4182fbb8 RCX: 0000000000000027
Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff9a2b5e7a1660
Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffb14e4182fa30
Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffff9a2b7ebbafe8 R12: 0000000000000000
Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: FS:  00007f0889d01200(0000) GS:ffff9a2b5e780000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: CR2: 00007fcb1e19a000 CR3: 00000001095a8001 CR4: 0000000000f70ee0
Sep 06 18:29:56 archhost kernel: PKRU: 55555554

which is a known problem that can be worked around by setting ibt=off to your kernel parameters, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Installation and the blue note box as well.

Goldensliv · 2022-09-08 04:13:34

Update: after a full system upgrade in preparation to switch kernels the issue resolved itself
it would seem a very recent update fixed it im not sure how though

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Strange Graphical issues on System76 Gazelle [gaze17]

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Re: Strange Graphical issues on System76 Gazelle [gaze17]

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