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murasakino

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Registered: 2023-02-08

Posts: 19

[SOLVED] major issues with x11 + KDE + arch on ASUS laptop

(for the forum mods i mentioned manjaro, kind of muscle memory i dont use manjaro anymore but used to. this error occurred there btw but i dont remember the fix, seems like its repeatable soo my bad)
recently i have been running into issues while screwing around with optimus manager on my laptop. the main issue is once the pc start on the login screen it is black, which i naturally solve by just typing my password blindly and it can log in. all of the icons seem to be very large and the font size too.

I use KDE with SDDM/xorg, Kwin for window manager.
here are some outputs for xrandr and lspci (ill also add a few additional details at the bottom)

xrandr:
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
eDP-1-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm
   1920x1080     60.03 +  60.01*   59.97    59.96    59.93
   1680x1050     59.95    59.88
   1400x1050     59.98
   1600x900      59.99    59.94    59.95    59.82
   1280x1024     60.02
   1400x900      59.96    59.88
   1280x960      60.00
   1440x810      60.00    59.97
   1368x768      59.88    59.85
   1280x800      59.99    59.97    59.81    59.91
   1280x720      60.00    59.99    59.86    59.74
   1024x768      60.04    60.00
   960x720       60.00
   928x696       60.05
   896x672       60.01
   1024x576      59.95    59.96    59.90    59.82
   960x600       59.93    60.00
   960x540       59.96    59.99    59.63    59.82
   800x600       60.00    60.32    56.25
   840x525       60.01    59.88
   864x486       59.92    59.57
   700x525       59.98
   800x450       59.95    59.82
   640x512       60.02
   700x450       59.96    59.88
   640x480       60.00    59.94
   720x405       59.51    58.99
   684x384       59.88    59.85
   640x400       59.88    59.98
   640x360       59.86    59.83    59.84    59.32
   512x384       60.00
   512x288       60.00    59.92
   480x270       59.63    59.82
   400x300       60.32    56.34
   432x243       59.92    59.57
   320x240       60.05
   360x202       59.51    59.13
   320x180       59.84    59.32

lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core 4-core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [Coffee Lake H] (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6th-10th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model
00:12.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Thermal Controller (rev 10)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller (rev 10)
00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM (rev 10)
00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 10)
00:15.1 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 10)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH HECI Controller (rev 10)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake Mobile PCH SATA AHCI Controller (rev 10)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f0)
00:1d.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #14 (rev f0)
00:1d.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #15 (rev f0)
00:1e.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO UART Host Controller (rev 10)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM470 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller (rev 10)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH cAVS (rev 10)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SMBus Controller (rev 10)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SPI Controller (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 10fa (rev a1)
06:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Kingston Technology Company, Inc. U-SNS8154P3 NVMe SSD (rev 01)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 25)
08:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 (rev 1a)

more details:
i was screwing around with xrandr here, tried to overclock my monitor from 60hz to 75hz but failed. i decided to use optimus-manager to switch to nvidia, i modified the config to add the following to the config file:
[optimus]
startup=nvidia

then after restarting i got the issues mentioned.

i tried changing my global theme from my custom one to the default breeze but no changes happened. the global scale is already at 100% and i cant lower it more. i used the custom icons NeonIcons with the Wings-Dark-Aurorae window decoration, i didnt touch fonts but they are also massive. when i switch to different icons/fonts/decorations the size is still massive.

help is appreciated and thanks

Last edited by murasakino (2023-02-09 13:42:28)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] major issues with x11 + KDE + arch on ASUS laptop

Which nvidia driver? `pacman -Qs nvidia`

murasakino

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Registered: 2023-02-08

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] major issues with x11 + KDE + arch on ASUS laptop

uh part of the problem was probably me trying to replace nouveau with propriatary. heres the -Qs output
local/bumblebee 3.2.1-21
    NVIDIA Optimus support for Linux through VirtualGL
local/egl-wayland 2:1.1.11-3
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 525.85.05-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libvdpau 1.5-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/nvidia 525.85.05-4
    NVIDIA drivers for linux
local/nvidia-utils 525.85.05-3
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/opencl-nvidia 525.85.05-3
    OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA
local/xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.17-2 (xorg-drivers)
    Open Source 3D acceleration driver for nVidia card

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: [SOLVED] major issues with x11 + KDE + arch on ASUS laptop

Remove optimus-manager, xf86-video-nouveau and any xorg.conf you might have generated and follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME# … er_offload

murasakino

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Registered: 2023-02-08

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] major issues with x11 + KDE + arch on ASUS laptop

should i be taking any precautions before shooting down all the configs? i dont exactly remember generating my own configs but probably they were messed with. so should i regenerate before rebooting or is it fine

murasakino

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Registered: 2023-02-08

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] major issues with x11 + KDE + arch on ASUS laptop

just removing optimus manager solved the issue thanks. as for the reason why it happened i still have no clue