Personal thank you to creator linux-cacule developer (ptr1337)

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@ptr1337 I want to say thank you to this guy, I have never faster laptop! Your work is incredible, linux-cacule is really great kernel! But this isn’t main thing what’s valuable for me… there is a lot of developers around the linux kernel, but you are special!

Why?

  1. You learned me how to use modules, kernel parametrs, GRUB, systemd-boot, nvidia-all and just everything around nvidia GPU on linux. I have never undestand this from Arch Wiki, but I learned this things form you! I think it’s very nice.
  2. You are helpful, really nice person, who knows what to do when something went wrong.
  3. I can read Arch Wiki much easier now, I created two guides from my knowledge.
  4. He’s my soulmate… we have similar life.

Currently I testing everything what @ptr1337 add into the linux-cacule and trying give him feedback soon as possible.

Advice for beginners:
Testing bring more knowledge, experience for you… top way how to expolere Arch Linux and Arch-based systems and generally get more about linux world.

Short stroy:
Some days ago, I meet new linux version on Gradua, I stared testing that… and we started communication on Telegram, now on Discord :slightly_smiling_face:

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Peter deserves the appreciation. He is very knowledgeable and very kind for helping and supporting. I would like to also thank you @Soong for your tests and feedback, and everyone who helped.

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That's my impression as well :slight_smile:
Welcome to the Garuda forum, nice to see you here @Hamadmarri :grin:

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Thanks for your feedback and that great thank you!

I'm very glad that you learned these things, i just try to help as much as possible, thats my person (sometimes not if i get really mad at dumb questions :smiley: )

but it is really fun to work with you, youre giving me a exact feedback where the performance is lagging around or getting better.

but for clearifcation: @Hamadmarri is the developer of cacule, not me. Im providing only for arch a build with some other patches and test things around.

Thank you for our gread feedback and much love :heart:

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Hehe i know... sometimes my questions is... you know... :smiley: But i trying learn everything soon as possible.
I know, thank you for CacULE @Hamadmarri. You and @ptr1337 created something incredible.

I'm trying to be the best QA - tester (Quality assurance) person for you guys. I going to write guide how to follow and determine performance - just everything why I can give valuable feedback. :slight_smile:

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RIP Privacy.

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I just installed it and booted in and it seems the kernel isn't compatible with optimus-manager.

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I tried my laptop with GTX 1050-Ti and second laptop with GT740M and PRIME works, optimus manager works. You should check your configuration. Tell me more details about your issue.

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I'm not entirely sure whats wrong yet. I know I had to download an aur package to get it compatible with linux-zen. I will post inxi -Fxxxza output here later.


System:    Kernel: 5.12.3-2-cacule x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-cacule root=UUID=6bffdc79-d9cf-4de9-a3aa-58bbfb0e7a9c rw 
rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 
systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 loglevel=3 intel_iommu=on i915.enable_gvt=1 kvm.ignore_msrs=1 i915.enable_guc=0 
Console: tty pts/1 wm: kwin_x11 DM: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Dell product: G3 3590 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
Mobo: Dell model: 0DKM3T v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.8.0 date: 11/11/2019 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 33.6 Wh (79.6%) condition: 42.2/51.0 Wh (82.8%) volts: 11.1 min: 11.4 model: BYD DELL M4GWP98 
type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: Discharging 
CPU:       Info: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-9750H socket: BGA1440 (U3E1) note: check bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake 
note: check family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10) microcode: DE cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 12 MiB L3: 12 MiB 
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 62399 
Speed: 2597 MHz min/max: 800/2600 MHz base/boost: 2600/2600 volts: 0.9 V ext-clock: 100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 
1: 2597 2: 2599 3: 2600 4: 2600 5: 2561 6: 2599 7: 2014 8: 2592 9: 2215 10: 2600 11: 2601 12: 2600 
Vulnerabilities: 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: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA TU116M [GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile] vendor: Dell driver: N/A alternate: nouveau bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:2191 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:2 chip-ID: 0bda:5521 class-ID: 0e02
serial: <filter>
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: intel unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: eDP1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 143 size: 340x190mm (13.4x7.5") diag: 389mm (15.3")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.0 direct render: Yes
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Dell driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-cnl
alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0401
Device-2: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
chip-ID: 10de:1aeb class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.12.3-2-cacule running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.27 running: no
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000
bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Dell driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel
port: 3000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0042 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth: Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:3 chip-ID: 0cf3:e009 class-ID: e001
Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 1.38 TiB used: 1.15 TiB (83.5%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN520 NVMe WDC 512GB size: 476.94 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s lanes: 2 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 20220012
temp: 60 Celsius C scheme: MBR
SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 159d 4h cycles: 1,286 read-units: 50,155,053 [25.6 TB]
written-units: 74,219,738 [38.0 TB]
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 family: Mobile HDD size: 931.51 GiB
block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B sata: 3.1 speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: ACM1
temp: 35 C scheme: GPT
SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 2y 51d 17h cycles: 3338 read: 52.36 TiB written: 38.5 TiB Old-Age:
g-sense error rate: 330 Pre-Fail: attribute: Spin_Retry_Count value: 100 worst: 100 threshold: 97
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%) used: 428.11 GiB (89.8%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) used: 568 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%) used: 428.11 GiB (89.8%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%) used: 428.11 GiB (89.8%) fs: btrfs
block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%) used: 428.11 GiB (89.8%) fs: btrfs
block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:      Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:      Processes: 294 Uptime: 9m wakeups: 83 Memory: 15.43 GiB used: 3.43 GiB (22.3%) Init: systemd v: 248 tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1760 lib: 546 Shell: fish (sudo) v: 3.2.2 default: Bash
v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.04

I checked optimus-manager logs and apparently it can't detect the nvidia drivers. Perhaps its not compatible with Nvidia vulkan drivers. I will have to check that. I installed nvidia drivers using nvidia-all package so that might be a problem.

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Seems to be again a user configuration error.

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It seems that I did not install the api-headers for cacule. Works fine now.

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This kernel isn't meant for vfio is it? Because I tried to run my vfio setup on it was so slow.

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We discussed about that with Ptr, but not so much user use that... we can open discuss again, what do you think @ptr1337 ?

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personally i hve never used vfio, but i can watch for it to improve it.

regards.

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The only reason I chose vfio over wine/proton is because it has less of a hassle. As long as you setup your vm config its only a matter of booting into it and playing your games. Whereas wine/proton both need fiddling to get any complex game working.

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