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RazonYang

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[SOLVED] NVidia external monitor typing laggy/delay

Hi, I just upgrade the system (pacman -Syu), and found that typing on external monitor is laggy/delay, but the mouse move works fine.

Everything works fine on the built-in laptop monitor.

$ sudo pacman -Ss nvidia | grep installed
extra/nvidia 530.41.03-3 [installed]
extra/nvidia-utils 530.41.03-1 [installed]

What info should I provide? Have no idea how to solve it.

Thanks.

Last edited by RazonYang (2023-04-11 16:05:52)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] NVidia external monitor typing laggy/delay

Is modesetting enabled so that PRIME sync is in effect? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … de_setting

FWIW there have been quite a few reports that the current version might have some regressions, if you want to test a downgrade, try getting nvidia-dkms and nvidia-utils relevantly downgraded from the ALA and install the current linux-headers to have the modules rebuilt against the current kernel.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux_Archive

RazonYang

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Re: [SOLVED] NVidia external monitor typing laggy/delay

Is modesetting enabled so that PRIME sync is in effect? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … de_setting

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet ibt=off"

Thanks for your quick response, I didn't enable the mode setting.

I've tried to downgrade to the previous working version, but the blank screen on external monitor.

downgrade nvidia-utils nvidia

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] NVidia external monitor typing laggy/delay

Which is expected. The nvidia package is always tied to a certain kernel version. If you want to downgrade that you'd also need to downgrade to the exact kernel that was in use when that specific nvidia release was up to date. To avoid that I suggest to install linux-headers of the current kernel and use the downgraded version of nvidia-dkms instead so the kernel module build happens locally on your machine.

RazonYang

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Re: [SOLVED] NVidia external monitor typing laggy/delay

Which is expected. The nvidia package is always tied to a certain kernel version. If you want to downgrade that you'd also need to downgrade to the exact kernel that was in use when that specific nvidia release was up to date. To avoid that I suggest to install linux-headers of the current kernel and use the downgraded version of nvidia-dkms instead so the kernel module build happens locally on your machine.

Thanks a lot, downgrade successfully, work great.

Post my solution here, may help others.

Download the related package from https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/, and then.

sudo pacman -U \
  ~/Downloads/linux-6.2.8.arch1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst \
  ~/Downloads/linux-headers-6.2.8.arch1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst \
  ~/Downloads/nvidia-dkms-525.85.05-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Btw, the `xf86-xvideo-nouveau` works with latest system.

arlindo

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Re: [SOLVED] NVidia external monitor typing laggy/delay

I'm running version 530.41.03-5 of nvidia* (latest I think), and I can confirm that the problem still occurs.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] NVidia external monitor typing laggy/delay

Of course it does, that's just the kernel rebuild, nothing about this will have a chance of changing until you get an actually new version.

cosmologist_piyush

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Re: [SOLVED] NVidia external monitor typing laggy/delay

Hello,
I am facing a similar issue, and an extra bit.
I have a 2K 165Hz Monitor, however, the max refresh rate option I get is 144Hz.
Below are my relevant settings:

$  sudo pacman -Ss nvidia | grep installed
extra/egl-wayland 4:1.1.16-1 [installed]
extra/libvdpau 1.5-3 [installed]
extra/libxnvctrl 560.35.03-1 [installed]
extra/nvidia 560.35.03-5 [installed: 560.35.03-3]
extra/nvidia-settings 560.35.03-1 [installed]
extra/nvidia-utils 560.35.03-2 [installed]

As you can see, I am running version 560.35.03-2 of the Nvidia Driver

modeset-ing is done

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet nvidia_drm.modeset=1 nvidia_drm.fbdev=1 nvidia.NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0"

envycontrol is also setup to use the discrete graphics

$  envycontrol --query
nvidia

$  glxinfo | rg "OpenGL" | rg "renderer"
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) Graphics (RPL-S)

Yet the graphics are a little buggy. Is downgrade still the only solution?

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] NVidia external monitor typing laggy/delay

We are more than a year later, you are most likely not seeing the same issue.

Please define "a little buggy", and post more details about your setup and which Wayland compositor you're using. Which cables and cable versions are at play, does this work on other systems? Open a new thread.

Closing this old solved topic.