Hardware acceleration problems

General system Newbie
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How is the monitor connected?

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one monitor via dvi and another via hdmi

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Which was disconnected when the issue came back?

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the one connected via hdmi

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Switch back to the hdmi and reboot and see if the issue goes away again.

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So you edited the default grub file.

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

You added nvidia-drm.modeset=1 to the line here

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nvidia-drm.modeset=1 resume=UUID=*****

Then ran

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Then edited the mkinitcpio.conf

sudo nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

Added the following to modules=""

MODULES="nvidia"

Then ran

sudo mkinitcpio -P

Reboot

Then add the FullCompositingPipeline to

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Nvidia Card"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option "NoLogo" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "nvidia"
        Option         "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }"

        Option          "TripleBuffer"                  "on"
        Option          "AllowIndirectGLXProtocol"      "off"
EndSection

If this doesn’t work you may have to start over as you did in the beginning to get there. But maybe @joekamprad has a quicker solution to correct it. I’m not the expert on some of this.

Edit: I had to do this on one of my systems i built for someone that has Cinnamon desktop. My own system with Xfce which also has an Nvidia didn’t have this issue. At least not yet. :smile:

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Hopefully you tried what @BONK suggested.

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after reproducing the steps a second time it seems to work now, tho it still feels like its booting slower than before.
i very small inconvenience was added but its not really a bother may i message you directly about it?

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Sure no problem.

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@AmandaONeill
Any luck in figuring out the other mouse freeze issue?

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well…i wanted to ask them a day later, than saw the problem magically vanished, i have not done anything different, my hardware is cursed sometime.

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Well that’s good news and in the mean time you did learn something regarding your
(nvidia) hardware and how to know it is installed and working correctly.

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