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Wayland GPU Instability

After updating today GPU accelerated programs such as games or VLC caused fullscreen crashing. I was already dealing with a couple of other unrelated bugs so I decided to fresh install, but upon updating the problem persists. I have a month-old version of Artix installed on a SSD which does not suffer the same issues, and as the title suggests I tried the same programs with X11 on the problem installation with no issues. I'm relatively new to Linux, and need help on how to identify the source of the issue so that I can have an idea on how to proceed further. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

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>Wayland
There's your problem. Try downgrading mesa and/or your graphics driver package.

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Quote from: nous – on
>Wayland
There's your problem. Try downgrading mesa and/or your graphics driver package.
I understand wayland is still in its development phase, but its essential for gaming for me as I have a high refresh rate monitor with adaptive sync -- X11 causes a lot of screen tearing.

Is there a way to downgrade mesa/driver just 1 version back? Or because I fresh installed would I have to roll all the way back to the 2023 installation release?

Also, I'm still curious to how I would actually go about finding the specific issue. Would there be something in /var/log? Or because it fullscreen crashed and I have to hard reset, would that not be logged?

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Question downgrade mesa just one version back, you can use https://archive.artixlinux.org/packages/m/mesa/ to check/download the right version.

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mesa-1:23.3.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst                 02-Feb-2024 10:17     17M
mesa-1:23.3.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig             02-Feb-2024 10:17     566

The previous version is from February 2024, it's not that old. I don't know much about GPU or mesa/driver, so I don't know if you will have to downgrade any other package for it to work though, or if you have to try to downgrade to older versions.

Question log, I think it depends which DE your using, or if you use Wayland Compositor. What is your setup?

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Quote from: statzitz – on
Question downgrade mesa just one version back, you can use https://archive.artixlinux.org/packages/m/mesa/ to check/download the right version.

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mesa-1:23.3.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst                 02-Feb-2024 10:17     17M
mesa-1:23.3.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig             02-Feb-2024 10:17     566

The previous version is from February 2024, it's not that old. I don't know much about GPU or mesa/driver, so I don't know if you will have to downgrade any other package for it to work though, or if you have to try to downgrade to older versions.

Question log, I think it depends which DE your using, or if you use Wayland Compositor. What is your setup?
Thanks for the info! I dont see the version of mesa you quoted at that link though. Do I just run "pacman -S mesa-1:23.3.5-1-x86_64"? Or do I download that package and install it manually?

Regarding DE, I'm using KDE wayland

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In the Artix repository, there is only the latest packages in.

You should first download the package from the archive, and after that install the package manually with `pacman -U mesa-IDKtheversionyouwilltrytodowngradeto-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst`.

You will certainly also need to use sudo to run the command.

Regarding KDE logs, I think they use KSystemLog, but I never tried it under Artix so I don't know if it works well.
 

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Thanks for the help everyone! The newest KWin update solved my problems, and now I know how to manually roll back packages thanks to your help!

I do have another issue regarding my system clock being out of sync despite being set correctly in the UEFI, and the proper locale being set, should I start a new thread or would you be able to help me here?

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Quote from: SalamiMommy – on

I do have another issue regarding my system clock being out of sync despite being set correctly in the UEFI, and the proper locale being set

Just install ntp and enable it on boot.

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Quote from: Ogis – on
Quote from: SalamiMommy – on

I do have another issue regarding my system clock being out of sync despite being set correctly in the UEFI, and the proper locale being set

Just install ntp and enable it on boot.
ntp is installed, how do I check if its enabled on boot? And if its not, how do I enable it? Thanks for your time

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Quote from: tintin – on
Quote from: SalamiMommy – on
ntp is installed, how do I check if its enabled on boot? And if its not, how do I enable it? Thanks for your time
https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,6260.msg38625.html#msg38625
Thank you so much! I was struggling to search the openrc equivalent information