After my last post, I still felt the call of Arch/EOS when I was experimenting with other distros. Sure, it’s hard mode, but it’s ownership of my computer and that’s the cost. I already broke things a few times, but fixed them! This new problem is hard for me to troubleshoot and I’m hoping someone can point me in a direction to look.
System specs at the end.
The problem is hard to describe. It’s not a true stutter as things are smoothish. It feels like there’s is 2-3 slowdowns within a second as I move windows across the monitor or scroll webpages up/down. Video doesn’t seem affected, I haven’t tried games on it.
My secondary monitor is set to 60hz, primary is 144hz. The problem persists even when primary is at 60/120/144/165hz, over reboots, dis/enabling it. The problem also persist when secondary is at 24hz/50hz.
Probably related, I had installed EOS under “default” KDE settings, when I installed Steam I kept Nouveau. When Baldur’s Gate 3 and Tabletop Sim refused to play nice, I found out that Nouveau is just a basic driver. I’ve replaced it with the proprietary nvidia drivers and how BG3, TTS, and now Helldivers 2 are working better than they ever were on Mint. Most of the troubleshooting threads say to check nvidia-settings which appears to be exclusive to X11.
Maybe??? related is that before I noticed this problem upon my second reboot after installing nvidia, my mouse would turn into this 2"x2" corrupted looking square whenever it was on the secondary. Dis/enabling the monitor make this go away.
leaf@Artemis
OS: EndeavourOS x86_64
Host: MS-7C56 (1.0)
Kernel: Linux 6.6.63-1-lts
Uptime: 10 hours, 19 mins
Packages: 1089 (pacman)
Shell: bash 5.2.37
Display (DELD10F): 2560x1440 @ 144 Hz in 31" [External] *
Display (GN246HL): 1920x1080 @ 60 Hz in 24" [External]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.2.4
WM: KWin (Wayland)
WM Theme: Breeze
Theme: Breeze (Dark) [Qt], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
Icons: breeze-dark [Qt], breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4]
Cursor: breeze (24px)
Terminal: konsole 24.8.3
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (16) @ 4.85 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
Memory: 7.15 GiB / 62.72 GiB (11%)
Swap: Disabled
Disk (/): 328.04 GiB / 1.21 TiB (26%) - ext4Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA102 [GeForce RTX 3080 Ti] vendor: eVga.com.
driver: nvidia v: 565.57.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550.xx+
status: current (as of 2024-09; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx
process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-2023 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s ports: active: none
off: DP-2,DP-3 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 2b:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2208
class-ID: 0300
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.14 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa gpu: nvidia d-rect: 4480x2520
display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-2 pos: bottom-l res: 1920x1080 size: N/A modes: N/A
Monitor-2: DP-3 pos: top-right res: 2560x1440 size: N/A modes: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2
drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: nvidia
x11: drv: nvidia inactive: device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 565.57.01
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
memory: 11.72 GiB display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.295 layers: 5 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti driver: nvidia v: 565.57.01 device-ID: 10de:2208