No issues with nvidia + cinnamon here on XPS 15
Having issues with virtual box and virt-manager again. Neither is working properly. They are just unusable for me on Ryzen again. Haven’t tried vmware as I’ve kind of thrown in the towel.
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5.16.1 is in testing, it’s very likely to have some fixes.
Edit: Touchpad has reappeared with 5.16.1.
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Running zen 5.16.0, Plasma Wayland on Rog Strix g531gt:
Problem with Wifi and 2.4Ghz: no go at all.
Problem with Nvidia Optimus full screen video will tear occasionally.
Other than that all good.
Just did a fresh installation of Endeavour. It installed kernel 5.16.2.
Graphics system does not start. No desktop environment (KDE). I have a laptop with Nvidia Optimus (dual GPU Nvidia/Intel).
Login on the console worked. I installed the linux-lts package (5.15.16). With that kernel the graphics system works.
Will stick with the LTS kernel for now and watch updates for 5.16.x.
It is a shame because I was waiting for 5.16. It is supposed to fix a problem that exists since kernel 5.12 and prevents me from controlling the laptop display’s backlight.
Update:
It looks like there is an issue with Kernel 5.16 and high monitor refresh rates.
My laptop screen can run at 165 Hz. I can boot with the 5.15 linux-lts kernel and switch refresh rates in KDE display settings between 40 Hz and 165 Hz. Changed the refresh rate to 40 Hz and rebooted into the 15.6 kernel. Now the graphical DE works. Unfortunately with the 15.6 kernel the display settings offer only 40 Hz!
This is OK for me for now because I have an external 60 Hz 4K display attached to the laptop and that works too.
Also strange:
Having this dual-monitor setup - I disabled the laptop screen completely in KDE display settings.
This leads to the DE becoming super unresponsive. Re-actived the laptop display and everything went back to normal.
Will keep both kernels around and keeping a watch on the 5.16.x updates.
System:
KDE Plasma 5.23.5
KDE Framework: 5.90.0
Qt: 5.15.2
Kernel: 5.16.2-arch1-1, 5.15.16-1-lts
Graphics platform: X11
Graphics: Intel TigerLake-H GT1 UHD, Nvidia RTX 3070 Mobile Max-Q
This is probably a bug in the 495xx driver: PSA: bug in Nvidia driver causes dbus spam
You could also try the nvidia-beta drivers with 511xx - these fix a load of issues.
My experience wasn’t great, because I forgot to read the news that they’ve split off some less common wireless card packages in the linux-firmware and so couldn’t connect at all this morning, as I am one of the lucky few, using the Surface Pro 3 with linux-firmware-marvell now that had to be installed separately.
That’s not really anything to do with kernel 5.16, that’s a change in the linux-firmware package: https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmware-202201190c6a7b3-2-requires-kernel-53-and-package-splitting/
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True, but the two of them do update together, most of the time, so just wanted to give a warning for others using SurfacePro 3…
I have tried nvidia-beta-dkms (510.39.01-1). Unfortunately the issues persist.
Weird. I have a hybrid laptop and the 144Hz internal panel and external displays both work correctly, and the dbus fix or 510 driver fixes the lag when only the external display is active. 