Arch Linux

linuxnoob12

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Registered: 2023-01-25

Posts: 1

New Install, Fullscreen Crashes, and Desktop Issues

Recently installed Arch. Thought it went well, but not anymore. After installing my games, and other applications I noticed some issues. Around half of my games don't work in full-screen only windowed. They simply crash, I also noticed strange issues with KDE. Bottom menu bar would be completely unresponsive. Using Firefox I noticed my display would randomly "every 5 minutes or so" flicker and show my desktop. Other applications would have strange issues too like blue lines, and other strange things. Clearing I messed something up or I am missing something. Not really sure where to go with troubleshooting. Read the page on the wiki, and it mentioned using journalctl, and I have no errors or alerts.

KDE Plasma Wayland Desktop
BTRFS Filesystem
2GB Swap File
EFISTUB Boot Entry
AMD 3600X CPU
AMD 5700XT GPU
16GB 3000Mhz Ram

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,258

Re: New Install, Fullscreen Crashes, and Desktop Issues

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pacman -Qs 'mesa|vulkan|amd'
uname -a
glxinfo -B #mesa-utils
vulkaninfo --summary #vulkan-tools
sudo journalctl -b

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

symptoms sound like power saving issues check whether upping the attempted level helps: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU … cy_problem

Last edited by V1del (2023-01-26 10:52:57)