My Arch Linux system is loading a slow user interface

another_newbie · 2024-04-21 13:17:27

i have looked for this issue everywhere but i couldn't find anything that matched my problem; it's not that i have a slow machine or that my apps crash, the animations are simply SLOW.

this happened impromptu after a 'yay' update i did. i don't use pacman, only yay.

the problem is whenever I open something it's like the animations are slow (take about 2-3 seconds to slowly load up). by animations, i mean literally anything I click on; wifi, bluetooth icons, opening the browser, clicking on the 3 bars INSIDE the browser, etc.

im suspecting its an animation problem, but i have tried to activate/deactivate them but it didn't do much.

i didn't really find much info about this issue so if you could help me out, that would save me some unnecessary frustration, thank you!

seth · 2024-04-21 14:34:13

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
Hardware, display server, drivers and gui session would be rather rewlevant to know…

i don't use pacman, only yay.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_he … n_wrappers
http://www.quickmeme.com/img/8f/8fe0e19 … 2bae76.jpg

another_newbie · 2024-04-27 10:54:35

here is my journalctl - b output; not sure how i can get the other things
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: Linux version 6.8.2-arch2-1 (linux@archlinux) (gcc (GCC
) 13.2.1 20230801, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.42.0) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:06:35 +0000
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=357be932-b6ab-4a3c-a93c-10e9c
275ff4e rw rootfstype=ext4 loglevel=3 quiet
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009efff] usable
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009f000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x0000000088d57fff] usable
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000088d58000-0x0000000089657fff] reserved
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000089658000-0x000000009786dfff] usable
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000009786e000-0x0000000098d6dfff] reserved
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000098d6e000-0x0000000099bcdfff] ACPI NVS
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000099bce000-0x0000000099c4dfff] ACPI data
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000099c4e000-0x0000000099c4efff] usable
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000099c4f000-0x000000009f7fffff] reserved
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000e0000000-0x00000000efffffff] reserved
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fe000000-0x00000000fe010fff] reserved
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fed10000-0x00000000fed19fff] reserved
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fed84000-0x00000000fed84fff] reserved
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fee00000-0x00000000fee00fff] reserved
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ff300000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000045e7fffff] usable
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: APIC: Static calls initialized
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: e820: update [mem 0x815c2018-0x815d1057] usable
==> usable
Apr 21 14:01:59 speedy kernel: e820: update [mem 0x815c2018-0x815d1057] usable
--More--

Lone_Wolf · 2024-04-27 11:07:15

We need the whole journal, please run (as root)

journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

It will output a URL, post that url .

For the hardware post the output of lspci -k in code tags , see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … s_and_code

X or wayland ?
What Window Manager / Desktop Environment / Compositor are you using ?

another_newbie · 2024-04-28 11:16:29

to answer from the bottom, i have Wayland, the window manager is KWin, the desktop env is KDE and the compositor is kwin_wayland

here's the URL for journalctl: http://0x0.st/XHgb.txt

and one of lspci -k : http://0x0.st/XHge.txt

thanks again for the help!

Lone_Wolf · 2024-04-28 12:49:25

You have a hybrid intel + nvidia graphics system.
In order to prevent clashes with simpledrm , add nvidia_drm.modeset=1 as paramater to your kernel boot line.
Check the doc for your chosen bootloader how to do that.

the journal shows hundreds of lines like

Apr 28 11:54:02 speedy auto-cpufreq[202608]: /usr/bin/cpufreqctl.auto-cpufreq: line 105: echo: write error: Device or resource busy

Are you using https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/auto-cpufreq ?

Does the slowness improve when you remove auto-cpufreq for testing purposes ?

seth · 2024-04-28 14:06:05

it's not that i have a slow machine or that my apps crash, the animations are simply SLOW.

Apr 27 22:27:00 speedy kernel: Linux version 6.8.2-arch2-1 (linux@archlinux) (gcc (GCC) 13.2.1 20230801, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.42.0) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:06:35 +0000
…
Apr 27 22:27:02 speedy systemd[1]: Started auto-cpufreq - Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux.
…
Apr 27 22:27:02 speedy sddm[450]: Initializing...
…
Apr 27 22:27:03 speedy systemd-logind[417]: New session 1 of user ariad.
…
Apr 27 22:27:04 speedy kwin_wayland[651]: No backend specified, automatically choosing drm
Apr 27 22:27:05 speedy kwin_wayland[651]: OpenGL vendor string:                   Intel
Apr 27 22:27:05 speedy kwin_wayland[651]: OpenGL renderer string:                 Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics (CML GT2)
Apr 27 22:27:05 speedy kwin_wayland[651]: OpenGL version string:                  4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 24.0.4-arch1.2
Apr 27 22:27:05 speedy kwin_wayland[651]: OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60
Apr 27 22:27:05 speedy kwin_wayland[651]: Driver:                                 Intel
Apr 27 22:27:05 speedy kwin_wayland[651]: GPU class:                              Comet Lake
Apr 27 22:27:05 speedy kwin_wayland[651]: OpenGL version:                         4.6
Apr 27 22:27:05 speedy kwin_wayland[651]: GLSL version:                           4.60
Apr 27 22:27:05 speedy kwin_wayland[651]: Mesa version:                           24.0.4
Apr 27 22:27:05 speedy kwin_wayland[651]: Requires strict binding:                no
Apr 27 22:27:05 speedy kwin_wayland[651]: Virtual Machine:                        no
Apr 27 22:27:05 speedy kwin_wayland[651]: Timer query support:                    yes
Apr 27 22:27:05 speedy kwin_wayland[651]: kwin_core: parsing edid failed
Apr 27 22:27:05 speedy kwin_wayland[651]: kwin_wayland_drm: Couldn't parse EDID for connector DrmConnector(id=95, gpu=KWin::DrmGpu(0x59361c315580), name="eDP-1-unknown", connection="Connected", countMode=2)
…
Apr 27 22:27:07 speedy kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  550.67  Tue Mar 12 23:54:15 UTC 2024

nvidia loads late, after the session.
Do you experience the same slowness w/ Plasma on X11?

Also

for OUT in /sys/class/drm/card*; do echo $OUT; edid-decode $OUT/edid; echo "================="; done

You'll need https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/edid-decode-git

Try to disable VRR

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