[SOLVED] Display issues | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

frozen turtle Jan 2, 2024, 2:15 PM

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FIX:
Downgrade to 535.* driver

Hey guys,

I was hoping some of you may have an idea why sometimes my display flickers (like the attached video) It's only happening on my laptop screen and NOT on my external monitor, nor does it flicker in the UEFI setup screen or in windows. It only happens when it's fully booted.

Sometimes during boot the screen stays black as well, no terminal, ctrl + F1/2/3/4/5/6 doesn't work either when it goes like this. This is however random, when I force shutdown the laptop by holding the powerbutton and start it again it may just work normally.

Sometimes it also takes up to TWO minutes for sddm to display anything on screen. So after plymouth drops it's boot image it can take up to 120 seconds for sddm to do anything (or it just stays black like the above mentioned)

There are NO graphical slowdowns either, the games installed from steam work as intended.

OS: ARCH (installed through the guide, step by step!)
CPU: i7 13700hx
RAM: 32gb DDR5
GPU: Nvidia RTX 4080 (latest driver, installed with pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils
Driver version: 545.29.06

edit:
I noticed that the laptop screen flickering stops when I change the refresh rate to 60 i stead of 240hz. But it's a 240hz panel and the external monitor works fine on it's 144hz.

Also tested without external display attached so it seems its related to the refreshrate

Software: Arch, KDE, X11, Plymouth

pure meteor Jan 2, 2024, 3:08 PM

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Is the Nvidia driver in use, or just installed?

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sudo modprobe nvidia

frozen turtle Jan 2, 2024, 3:28 PM

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It's in use yes :) When it gets past boot it can run games like Ark survival evolved at the screens native 1440p resolution on max settings with no issues or whatsoever

frozen turtle Jan 2, 2024, 4:21 PM

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This is what happens when booting decides not to work. It will just throw flip event timeouts into infinity

edit:
Also tried booting without the fbdev=1 parameter

edit 2:
Also tried reinstalling with OpenSuse, same issue as well. I've reverted back to Arch and tried with Gnome instead of KDE and the same issue appears as well. It seems like the latest nvidia driver is broken on certain gpu's

#[SOLVED] Display issues