I recently switched from Cinnamon to KDE plasma by reinstallation for a more advanced Linux experience, but it has been very laggy for me as it keeps frequently freezing sometimes to open the Super menu or Settings or in general. I have very capable hardware. And somehow NV-Control X isn’t detected although it’s installed…
If you’re running a Wayland session, log out and try an X11 session and see if the issue persists. Nvidia and Wayland sometimes causes issues.
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I tried to use X11-Plasma before, sadly lag presists including the NV-Control X unavailability but slightly less intense, on Cinnamon it doesn’t support Wayland on my hardware as it’s experimental. I blame this on the Full GPU acceleration of desktop compositioning and rendering that’s on Plasma (I so think)
This really makes me want to switch to a modern AMD card
What is your hardware? No problems for me on an AMD Ryzen 7/nVidia RTX3070.
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Please show the hardware with inxi -Faz | eos-sendlog and post the url.
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Here you g!o https://0x0.st/8Sy9.txt
Have you just done the latest updates. There is a bunch of Kde updates just now i got.
Yep I did before, Nothing changed at all, still laggy
nvidia_drm.fbdev=1 nvidia NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0
Try adding the above to /etc/kernel/cmdline then sudo reinstall-kernels
This assumes systemd-boot.
This has sadly changed nothing about my lag, I use nvidia-open-dkms instead of nvidia, could this be a reason why?
EDIT: My default /etc/kernel/cmdline said nvidia_drm.modeset=1 In it also, Didn’t change after editing
You have to add it to /etc/kernel/cmdline and save the file.
Edit: You can use kate to edit it and it will automatically save any changes you make to it when closing the file.
Yeah I edited that file adding your lines using sudo nano, no effort changed for me but the file changed
I’m not sure what you mean? If using nano i always use ctrl + o then enter to save the file and then ctrl + x to exit nano. Maybe you aren’t actually saving it before exiting nano?
I did save it, I usually crtlX then write the buffer, Checked it and it’s still got the edits. I should reinstall nvidia again and see if that works for me
What does dkms status show?
nvidia/570.124.04, 6.13.6-arch1-1, x86_64: installed
Sounds it’s installed properly, I’ll now restore nvidia in place of nvidia-open-dkms and see…
Much better on the Lag department settings still very laggy (Might this be a Symptom of Mounting /home to an HDD? KDE stores it’s user configs there and my HDD accses light has been noticeably more busy, is there a way to keep it in my NVME /?)
“NV-CONTROL X” extension still not found by gwe although I assume something else is used to control Nvidia fan speed on Wayland
I have nvidia-settings installed and it fails to show me more detailed settings due to an assumed failure of libxnvctrl, I’m running on Wayland, logging off for the night, thank yous o much for the help yet!
Possibly … that’s not something i do.
Not sure what you are trying to do?
I’ve seen this before not sure. I’ll have to check my nvidia desktop to see what it shows.
I don’t think it would be helping performance. Rather than having /home mounted to the HDD, you might have the HDD mounted to a folder within your profile? Something like:
/home/aresydatch/data
Or you could have specifics like Documents, Pictures and Videos mapped to the HDD.
Not serving quite the same purpose, but your profile will require a lot of ongoing read/write from the system and drive performance will factor there. Your NVME drive would be better suited to that.