Graphical gltiches on Acer Swift X 14 laptop

Laptop has RTX 4050 and Intel Arc graphics. Intel Ultra 7 155H CPU. Wasn’t happening on Windows. Happens on X11 and Wayland. Have updated software. Happens on hybrid, Intel only, and Nvidia only.

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Please post the outputs of the following two commands.

inxi -Fxxc0z
pacman -Q | grep -A 0 -E "(nvidia|amd|intel|linux|headers)"

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System:
  Kernel: 6.13.1-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.5 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
    Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Swift SFX14-72G v: V1.08
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: MTL model: EQB_MTH v: V1.08 serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: 0000000000000000 UEFI: INSYDE v: 1.08 date: 03/29/2024
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 30.3 Wh (39.2%) condition: 77.2/76.4 Wh (101.0%)
    volts: 14.9 min: 15.5 model: SIMPLO AP21B7Q_NC serial: <filter>
    status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: 16-core (6-mt/10-st) model: Intel Core Ultra 7 155H bits: 64
    type: MST AMCP arch: Meteor Lake rev: 4 cache: L1: 1.6 MiB L2: 18 MiB
    L3: 24 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1984 min/max: 400/4500:4800:3800:2500 cores: 1: 1984
    2: 1984 3: 1984 4: 1984 5: 1984 6: 1984 7: 1984 8: 1984 9: 1984 10: 1984
    11: 1984 12: 1984 13: 1984 14: 1984 15: 1984 16: 1984 17: 1984 18: 1984
    19: 1984 20: 1984 21: 1984 22: 1984 bogomips: 131788
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Meteor Lake-P [Intel Arc Graphics]
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Xe-LPG ports:
    active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4 bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:7d55
  Device-2: NVIDIA AD107M [GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q / Mobile]
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: nvidia v: 570.86.16 arch: Lovelace
    ports: active: none empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:28a1
  Device-3: Chicony ACER FHD User Facing driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-6:2 chip-ID: 04f2:b799
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
    alternate: fbdev,intel,nouveau,nv,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: Samsung 0x418c res: 2880x1800 hz: 120 dpi: 234
    diag: 368mm (14.5")
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: iris gbm:
    drv: iris surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.6 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.3.4-arch1.1
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Arc Graphics (MTL)
    device-ID: 8086:7d55 display-ID: :1.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.303 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 0
    type: discrete-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:28a1
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
    wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Meteor Lake-P HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-mtl bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:7e28
  API: ALSA v: k6.13.1-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Meteor Lake PCH CNVi WiFi vendor: Rivet Networks
    driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 0000:00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:7e40
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX211 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-10:4 chip-ID: 8087:0033
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: disabled
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: N/A
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller Intel
    driver: vmd v: 0.6 bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:7d0b
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 147.16 GiB (15.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: 3500 MTFDKBA1T0TGD-1BK15ABYY
    size: 953.87 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 28.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 936.83 GiB used: 146.71 GiB (15.7%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 15.05 GiB used: 6.41 GiB (42.6%)
  Processes: 442 Power: uptime: 9m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 257
    default: graphical
  Packages: 1315 pm: pacman pkgs: 1303 pm: flatpak pkgs: 12 Compilers:
    clang: 19.1.7 gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: konsole
    inxi: 3.3.37
--
intel-ucode 20241112-1
--
lib32-amdvlk 2024.Q4.3-1
--
linux 6.13.1.arch1-1
linux-api-headers 6.10-1
linux-firmware 20250109.7673dffd-1
linux-firmware-marvell 20250109.7673dffd-1
linux-firmware-whence 20250109.7673dffd-1
linux-headers 6.13.1.arch1-1
linux-lts 6.12.12-1
--
nvidia 570.86.16-2
nvidia-inst 25-1
nvidia-settings 570.86.16-1
nvidia-utils 570.86.16-2
--
syslinux 6.04.pre3.r3.g05ac953c-3
--
util-linux 2.40.4-1
util-linux-libs 2.40.4-1
--
vulkan-headers 1:1.4.303-1

I see you already have linux-lts installed. This is great. Now please also run the following command to install the other needed packages, then reboot into the LTS kernel to test if this is an issue with the latest 6.13 kernel.

sudo pacman -Syu linux-lts-header nvidia-lts

Before rebooting, make sure to run either “sudo dracut-rebuild” or “sudo mkinitcpio -P” depending on which one you are using.

EDIT: Just realised you used nvidia-inst, so you may get a conflict when trying to install nvidia-lts. You shouldn’t, but let me know if you have trouble with it.

Tried that. Still seems to happen.