Screen flickering

I just installed Endeavor, everything was fine.
I turned off pc and after some time i switch it on, now i see my screen is flickering.

More precisely the text on the screeen is vibrating.

I just open a video, it was playing fine and the subtitles are also fine.

Please help.

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Welcome aboard! :partying_face:

It’s hard to tell without any info…please share some logs so people could help :wink:

Start with:

inxi -Faz --no-host

and right after that happens

journalctl -p3 -xb
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System:
Kernel: 5.17.5-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux
root=UUID=c0a63407-ad1a-4cd2-b88a-1e0e02dec2d3 rw
resume=UUID=046e4812-ebd9-4277-8928-d6f394fbdced loglevel=3 nowatchdog
nvme_load=YES
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.3 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm:
1: LightDM v: 1.30.0 note: stopped 2: SDDM note: stopped
Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: MSI model: Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) v: 1.0
serial: BIOS: American Megatrends v: 1.9
date: 07/21/2014
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-4690 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell family: 6
model-id: 0x3C (60) stepping: 3 microcode: 0x28
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 smt: cache: L1: 256 KiB
desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 6 MiB
desc: 1x6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3424 high: 3843 min/max: 800/3900 scaling:
driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 2231 2: 3840 3: 3783
4: 3843 bogomips: 28008
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
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: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: HDMI-A-2
empty: HDMI-A-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0412 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: intel unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-2 mapped: HDMI2 model: AOC 22B1W serial:
built: 2018 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 102 gamma: 1.2
size: 480x270mm (18.9x10.63") diag: 546mm (21.5") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2)
v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.3 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0
chip-ID: 8086:0c0c class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:8c20 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.5-arch1-1 running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: alx v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:e091 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac:
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.27 TiB used: 307.82 GiB (13.2%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD5000AAKX-22ERMA0 size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial:
rev: 1H17 scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Toshiba model: HDWD120
size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: rev: ACF0 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 87.5 GiB size: 85.57 GiB (97.80%) used: 7.42 GiB (8.7%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7 maj-min: 8:7
ID-2: /boot raw-size: 512 MiB size: 503.6 MiB (98.36%)
used: 71.3 MiB (14.2%) fs: ext2 dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 12 GiB used: 13.1 MiB (0.1%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 193 Uptime: 43m wakeups: 0 Memory: 7.58 GiB
used: 2.4 GiB (31.7%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 11.2.0 Packages: pacman: 910 lib: 214 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.15

System:
Kernel: 5.17.5-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux
root=UUID=c0a63407-ad1a-4cd2-b88a-1e0e02dec2d3 rw
resume=UUID=046e4812-ebd9-4277-8928-d6f394fbdced loglevel=3 nowatchdog
nvme_load=YES
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.3 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm:
1: LightDM v: 1.30.0 note: stopped 2: SDDM note: stopped
Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: MSI model: Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) v: 1.0
serial: BIOS: American Megatrends v: 1.9
date: 07/21/2014
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-4690 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell family: 6
model-id: 0x3C (60) stepping: 3 microcode: 0x28
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 smt: cache: L1: 256 KiB
desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 6 MiB
desc: 1x6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3424 high: 3843 min/max: 800/3900 scaling:
driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 2231 2: 3840 3: 3783
4: 3843 bogomips: 28008
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
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: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: HDMI-A-2
empty: HDMI-A-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0412 class-ID: 0300
[vushan@Matrix ~]$ journalctl -p3 -xb
May 07 16:47:19 Matrix kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT5._GTF.DSSP], AE_NOT_FOUND (20211217/psargs-330)
May 07 16:47:19 Matrix kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT5._GTF due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20211217/psparse-529)
May 07 16:47:19 Matrix kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT5._GTF.DSSP], AE_NOT_FOUND (20211217/psargs-330)
May 07 16:47:19 Matrix kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT5._GTF due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20211217/psparse-529)
May 07 16:47:23 Matrix kernel: snd_hda_codec_hdmi hdaudioC0D0: Monitor plugged-in, Failed to power up codec ret=[-13]
May 07 16:48:39 Matrix kate[638]: inotify_add_watch(/run/media/vushan/500GB) failed: (Permission denied)
May 07 16:48:39 Matrix kernel: ntfs3: Unknown parameter ‘windows_names’
May 07 17:28:50 Matrix systemd-coredump[8793]: [🡕] Process 8787 (minecraft-launc) of user 1000 dumped core.

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                                           Module /home/vushan/.minecraft/launcher/libcef.so with build-id 3ed2fdcfd233a40c7cd1fda5c6f0bf5476c336d5
                                           Module /home/vushan/.minecraft/launcher/liblauncher.so with build-id 600e6a36e68b6d2e6f0500ff7e120fbf95df10b8
                                           Module linux-vdso.so.1 with build-id c44838b6f952044acc4a4965fe03ad60a34a6683
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                                           Module libzstd.so.1 with build-id 3bccb8fe08e48d5ea135b1d0f99de0d771dd752f
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I posted them below

Did you try removing xf86-video-intel?

reboot

I don’t know how to do anything.

You have to use pacman commands.

sudo pacman -R xf86-video-intel

Then reboot after removing.

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@sasuke108
Please let us know if the screen flickering is gone after removing the Intel driver.

yes it worked.

Thanks a lot.

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This is a good place to start:

If you have doubt about anything, ask the forum.

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