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bala451987

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Recent installation and facing issues

I recently switched to Arch and decided to try out the Xfce environment after using an Ubuntu-based distro for a while. I’ve been enjoying it so far, but I’m facing a few issues.

    1. Performance Issues: I’m experiencing some slowness with Xfce, though I haven’t tried Gnome or KDE yet. My hardware specs are Nvidia graphics, an Intel Core i5 processor, and 8GB of RAM, which I believe should be more than enough to run Xfce smoothly. The system particularly slows down or even hangs when copying files between folders, especially when dealing with large files (2-3GB). I also notice lag when accessing SSH and when using terminal it lags or hang.

    2. Audio Issues: I’m having trouble with both audio input and output. Despite watching videos, there’s no sound. I selected Pipewire during installation, but it doesn’t seem to be working properly.

    3. pCloud Startup Issue: I’ve installed pCloud and set it to run at startup, but it doesn’t seem to activate automatically. I always have to launch it manually.

V1del

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Re: Recent installation and facing issues

Please make one thread per issue.

On the performance issue, which gpu exactly and is that being used properly, which driver? Install mesa-utils and post

glxinfo -B

is the compositor of xfce enabled and is there a difference in behaviour with it disabled or vice versa? Generally speaking since you mention copying, that this leads to slowdowns can sometimes be somewhat "normal" if your disks are slow and struggle with the IO interactions between transfers (does "folders" here mean folders on the same disk or transfering from/to USB)

bala451987

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Re: Recent installation and facing issues

Here are the output

[bala@archlinux ~]$ glxinfo -B
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
    Device: Mesa Intel(R) Graphics (ADL GT2) (0x4628)
    Version: 24.3.4
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 3822MB
    Unified memory: yes
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.6
    Max compat profile version: 4.6
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.2
OpenGL vendor string: Intel
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) Graphics (ADL GT2)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 24.3.4-arch1.1
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 24.3.4-arch1.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 24.3.4-arch1.1
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

Yes ompositor is enabled under windows tweaks manager.

Last edited by bala451987 (2025-02-06 14:08:44)

cryptearth

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Re: Recent installation and facing issues

this looks like a laptop
if so: please post oem and model

bala451987

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Re: Recent installation and facing issues

Acer and Aspire 5

cryptearth

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Re: Recent installation and facing issues

which aspire 5 exactly? acer lists an entire series
anyway - you seem to have not (correctly) installed the nvidia drivers nor prime/optimus offloading
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME

V1del

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Re: Recent installation and facing issues

That the iGPU is active by default is generally normal and what you actually want, it's not yet clear whether the stutters are even due to a graphics issue or what they actually mean in anything quantifiable. FWIW especially for IO considerations I'd strongly suggest the BFQ scheduler for spinning disks (... maybe the easiest would be to simply outright test the linux-zen kernel first, it sets that as well as a few latency tweaks up out of the box, that should make things more responsive)

FWIW when  things "hang" what do you get from

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

have you already checked top/htop and the like whether your HW is limitting in some form? Not sure what kind of stuff archinstall sets up, but if e.g. power-profiles-daemon is installed then maybe you'd need to toggle that away from powersave mode to balance or performance or so.

bala451987

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Re: Recent installation and facing issues

I’ve reinstalled Arch Linux, but now there’s no audio input or output available on the system, and I’m unable to fix it.

Here are two outputs: the first one shows no video playback, and the second one occurs when a video is playing from YouTube.

[bala@archlinux ~]$ sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st
[sudo] password for bala: 
http://0x0.st/8PMC.txt
[bala@archlinux ~]$ sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st
http://0x0.st/8Pur.txt

An output for my driver information:

[bala@archlinux ~]$ lspci -k -d ::03xx
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 [UHD Graphics] (rev 0c)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 161f
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915, xe
0000:01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce MX550] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 161f
    Kernel driver in use: nouveau
    Kernel modules: nouveau
[bala@archlinux ~]$

Last edited by bala451987 (2025-02-07 04:37:25)

V1del

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Re: Recent installation and facing issues

There's a bunch of nouveau crashes, if you're not in it for ideological reasons I suggest you give the nvidia drivers a try and configure them for PRIME:  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA (some special stipulations if you follow the install instructions, when there's mention of removing the kms hook, you probably don't want to do that as i915 is still the driving force) https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME# … er_offload

bala451987

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Re: Recent installation and facing issues

So should i run the command from the beginning as per this references: Starts from GPU offloading?: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME
If you explain me in little more detail can help me out.

Last edited by bala451987 (2025-02-07 09:53:51)

bala451987

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Re: Recent installation and facing issues

I hope you're doing well. I am deciding reinstalling Arch Linux and would appreciate your advice regarding the appropriate driver for my NVIDIA graphics card. Previously, I selected the "NVIDIA Nouveau" driver, but I am experiencing issues and would like to know which driver would be more suitable to resolve these problems.

Could you kindly recommend the best option from the available drivers to ensure optimal performance and avoid these issues? Your assistance in helping me select the right driver would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time and support.

cryptearth

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Re: Recent installation and facing issues

as the wiki states:
for standard linux kernel: use nvidia-open
for any other kernel (zen, lts): use nvidia-open-dkms (+dkms +kernel headers)

bala451987

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Re: Recent installation and facing issues

In my case i installed both normal and LTS version of kernels. So i understand now i stick with any one of it. Do you recommend me which one is the best option for home productive environment.

V1del

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Re: Recent installation and facing issues

There's no generally correct answer to this. I personally stay on the main kernel and installed LTS as a fallback should there be a kernel bug breaking something, that's probably the best general bet you can have. The non-LTS kernel will get new features, the LTS kernel no new features but mostly bug fixes. Nvidia can sometimes have issues with the latest kernels but they're generally quick with getting support in the driver.

cryptearth

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Re: Recent installation and facing issues

the problem is: you can NOT install both at the same time - they are mutual exclusive - when in doubt and a different kernel is in use: go dkms
the non-dkms is for use with standard linux kernel only
reason: the non-dkms package is pre-built in sync with the linux kernel while dkms does the build on-the-fly during package install/kernel update - and kernel modules only work with the exact kernel they're built for
see v1del's post

Last edited by cryptearth (2025-02-12 23:22:53)

V1del

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Re: Recent installation and facing issues

you can actually install both at the same time but it makes no sense if you use a kernel that has it prebuilt already (btw linux-lts has nvidia-lts for a prebuilt) and there also won't be a conflict if you don't have the headers for the kernel that has the precompiled module instead, as that way DKMS can't build the module for said kernel.