I’ve a minor problem with screen tearing on my secondary monitor, it’s fairly minor, but noticeable when scrolling through long webpages. Following the advice on arch wiki for NVIDIA and forcing a full composition pipeline seems to resolve the issue. Initially, I’ve done this though GUI for nvidia-settings, right now I’m trying to persist this after reboot.
The file generated by GUI application is missing some settings mentioned in Arch wiki, specificallyTripleBuffering should be enabled and AllowIndirectGLXProtocol should be disabled in the driver configuration as well.
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 535.113.01
# Automatically generated by EnvyControl
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Inactive "intel"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Microstep MSI MAG342CQR"
HorizSync 30.0 - 222.0
VertRefresh 48.0 - 125.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "intel"
Driver "modesetting"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "nvidia"
Device "nvidia"
Monitor "Monitor0"
Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "intel"
Device "intel"
Monitor "Monitor0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
Option "metamodes" "3440x1440_100 +1920+0 {ForceCompositionPipeline=On}"
Option "SLI" "Off"
Option "MultiGPU" "Off"
Option "BaseMosaic" "off"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
I need to set this up for mult. monitor, but I’m not quite sure how the command should look following the given example in the wiki.
The output of nvidia-settings --query CurrentMetaMode is below.
Attribute 'CurrentMetaMode' (yury-endeavour-os:1.0): id=50, switchable=yes, source=RandR :: DPY-0: 3440x1440_100 @3440x1440 +1920+0 {ViewPortIn=3440x1440, ViewPortOut=3440x1440+0+0}
Also, how to translate to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf, looking at the wiki I think it should be something like below:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "intel"
Device "intel"
Monitor "Monitor0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
Option "metamodes" "3440x1440_100 +1920+0 {ForceCompositionPipeline=On}"
Option "SLI" "Off"
Option "MultiGPU" "Off"
Option "BaseMosaic" "off"
Option "AllowIndirectGLXProtocol" "off"
Option "TripleBuffer" "on
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
I’m actually not sure if this needs to be a mult. monitor setup as this a laptop, as only external screen is connected to NVIDIA card though HDMI, I believe the build in screen uses Intel CPU. Below are specs for the laptop, and current display setup.
~ inxi -Fazy ✔ 05:16:34 PM
System:
Kernel: 6.5.5-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc available: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: initrd=\6b380c6eb31c4f619722bcbdedef7d8f\6.5.5-arch1-1\initrd
nvme_load=YES nowatchdog rw rootflags=subvol=/@
rd.luks.uuid=8c90355f-3586-490d-8097-a9bb7b120ab9
root=/dev/mapper/luks-8c90355f-3586-490d-8097-a9bb7b120ab9
nvidia-drm.modeset=1 systemd.machine_id=6b380c6eb31c4f619722bcbdedef7d8f
Desktop: GNOME v: 44.5 tk: GTK v: 3.24.38 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM v: 44.1
Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Micro-Star product: GF65 Thin 9SEXR v: REV:1.0
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-16W1 v: REV:1.0 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: E16W1IMS.10A date: 03/26/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 45.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 45.1/51.3 Wh (88.0%)
volts: 12.9 min: 11.4 model: MSI Corp. MS-16W1 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: full
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech MK700 serial: <filter>
charge: 70% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse MX Master
serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-9750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake
gen: core 9 level: v3 note: check built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xA (10) microcode: 0xF4
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB
L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 802 high: 834 min/max: 800/4500 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 834 4: 800
5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 bogomips: 62431
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling mitigation: Microcode
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: conditional,
RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20
ports: active: eDP-1 empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: nvidia v: 535.113.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 535.xx+
status: current (as of 2023-09) arch: Turing code: TUxxx
process: TSMC 12nm FF built: 2018-22 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-1
empty: none bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f15 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.1
compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia dri: iris
gpu: i915,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :1 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 5360x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1418x381mm (55.83x15.00")
s-diag: 1468mm (57.81")
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-0 note: disabled pos: primary,right
model: MSI MAG342CQR serial: <filter> built: 2021 res: 3440x1440 dpi: 110
gamma: 1.2 size: 797x333mm (31.38x13.11") diag: 856mm (33.7") modes:
max: 3440x1440 min: 640x480
Monitor-2: eDP-1 mapped: eDP-1-1 pos: left model: AU Optronics 0xd0ed
built: 2019 res: 1920x1080 hz: 120 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2
size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9
modes: 1920x1080
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0
drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: iris device: 3 drv: swrast surfaceless:
drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia inactive: gbm,wayland,device-2
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 535.113.01
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2
memory: 5.86 GiB
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.5.5-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.80 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:a370 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) driver: btusb v: 0.8
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-14:3
chip-ID: 8087:0aaa class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter> bt-v: 5.1 lmp-v: 10
status: discoverable: no pairing: no
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 84.48 GiB (17.7%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Toshiba
model: KBG40ZNV512G KIOXIA size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: AEXA0101 temp: 52.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 475.96 GiB size: 475.96 GiB (100.00%)
used: 84.23 GiB (17.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-8c90355f-3586-490d-8097-a9bb7b120ab9
ID-2: /home raw-size: 475.96 GiB size: 475.96 GiB (100.00%)
used: 84.23 GiB (17.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-8c90355f-3586-490d-8097-a9bb7b120ab9
ID-3: /var/log raw-size: 475.96 GiB size: 475.96 GiB (100.00%)
used: 84.23 GiB (17.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-8c90355f-3586-490d-8097-a9bb7b120ab9
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 24 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
file: /swap/swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C pch: 63.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 51 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Processes: 346 Uptime: 59m wakeups: 7 Memory: total: 16 GiB
available: 15.47 GiB used: 4.04 GiB (26.1%) Init: systemd v: 254
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 clang: 16.0.6
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1122 libs: 295 tools: yay Shell: Zsh v: 5.9
running-in: kgx inxi: 3.3.30
~ xrandr --query INT ✘ 05:12:42 PM
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 5360 x 1440, maximum 32767 x 32767
HDMI-0 connected primary 3440x1440+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 797mm x 333mm
3440x1440 50.00 + 100.00*
3840x2160 59.94
2560x1440 120.00
2560x1080 59.94
1920x1080 100.00 60.00 59.94 50.00
1720x1440 60.00
1680x1050 100.00 59.95
1440x900 100.00 59.89
1280x1024 100.00 75.02 60.02
1280x720 59.94 50.00
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
800x600 75.00 72.19 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00
720x480 59.94
640x480 75.00 72.81 59.94 59.93
eDP-1-1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm
1920x1080 120.11*+ 59.97 59.96 59.93 48.08
1680x1050 59.95 59.88
1400x1050 74.76 59.98
1600x900 59.99 59.94 59.95 59.82
1280x1024 85.02 75.02 60.02
1400x900 59.96 59.88
1280x960 85.00 60.00
1440x810 60.00 59.97
1368x768 59.88 59.85
1280x800 59.99 59.97 59.81 59.91
1152x864 75.00
1280x720 60.00 59.99 59.86 59.74
1024x768 85.00 75.05 60.04 85.00 75.03 70.07 60.00
1024x768i 86.96
960x720 85.00 75.00 60.00
928x696 75.00 60.05
896x672 75.05 60.01
1024x576 59.95 59.96 59.90 59.82
960x600 59.93 60.00
832x624 74.55
960x540 59.96 59.99 59.63 59.82
800x600 85.00 75.00 70.00 65.00 60.00 85.14 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
840x525 60.01 59.88
864x486 59.92 59.57
700x525 74.76 59.98
800x450 59.95 59.82
640x512 85.02 75.02 60.02
700x450 59.96 59.88
640x480 85.09 60.00 85.01 72.81 75.00 59.94
720x405 59.51 58.99
720x400 85.04
684x384 59.88 59.85
640x400 59.88 59.98 85.08
576x432 75.00
640x360 59.86 59.83 59.84 59.32
640x350 85.08
512x384 85.00 75.03 70.07 60.00
512x384i 87.06
512x288 60.00 59.92
416x312 74.66
480x270 59.63 59.82
400x300 85.27 72.19 75.12 60.32 56.34
432x243 59.92 59.57
320x240 85.18 72.81 75.00 60.05
360x202 59.51 59.13
360x200 85.04
320x200 85.27
320x180 59.84 59.32
320x175 85.27
1680x1050 (0x1c8) 146.250MHz -HSync +VSync
h: width 1680 start 1784 end 1960 total 2240 skew 0 clock 65.29KHz
v: height 1050 start 1053 end 1059 total 1089 clock 59.95Hz
1280x1024 (0x1cc) 135.000MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 1280 start 1296 end 1440 total 1688 skew 0 clock 79.98KHz
v: height 1024 start 1025 end 1028 total 1066 clock 75.02Hz
1280x1024 (0x1cd) 108.000MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 1280 start 1328 end 1440 total 1688 skew 0 clock 63.98KHz
v: height 1024 start 1025 end 1028 total 1066 clock 60.02Hz
1024x768 (0x1d0) 78.750MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 1024 start 1040 end 1136 total 1312 skew 0 clock 60.02KHz
v: height 768 start 769 end 772 total 800 clock 75.03Hz
1024x768 (0x1d1) 75.000MHz -HSync -VSync
h: width 1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1328 skew 0 clock 56.48KHz
v: height 768 start 771 end 777 total 806 clock 70.07Hz
1024x768 (0x1d2) 65.000MHz -HSync -VSync
h: width 1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1344 skew 0 clock 48.36KHz
v: height 768 start 771 end 777 total 806 clock 60.00Hz
800x600 (0x1d4) 50.000MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 800 start 856 end 976 total 1040 skew 0 clock 48.08KHz
v: height 600 start 637 end 643 total 666 clock 72.19Hz
800x600 (0x1d3) 49.500MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 800 start 816 end 896 total 1056 skew 0 clock 46.88KHz
v: height 600 start 601 end 604 total 625 clock 75.00Hz
800x600 (0x1d5) 40.000MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 800 start 840 end 968 total 1056 skew 0 clock 37.88KHz
v: height 600 start 601 end 605 total 628 clock 60.32Hz
800x600 (0x1d6) 36.000MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 800 start 824 end 896 total 1024 skew 0 clock 35.16KHz
v: height 600 start 601 end 603 total 625 clock 56.25Hz
640x480 (0x1d9) 31.500MHz -HSync -VSync
h: width 640 start 656 end 720 total 840 skew 0 clock 37.50KHz
v: height 480 start 481 end 484 total 500 clock 75.00Hz
640x480 (0x1db) 25.175MHz -HSync -VSync
h: width 640 start 656 end 752 total 800 skew 0 clock 31.47KHz
v: height 480 start 490 end 492 total 525 clock 59.94Hz
What would be the proper way to persists the config is this situation? I appreciate the help, thanks in advance.