Hi, newbie here
I’ve got some problems with screen tearing and NVIDIA and was hoping I
could find some help here
This is a Lenovo Y700 laptop with a GeForce GTX 960M card
In short: After migrating from win 10 to garuda KDE it shows tearing all over the system
I had a look around forum threads and the Arch wiki, but feel like I’m still missing some important fundamental knowledge. I have zero knowledge
of how this works or how to test it, so please bear with me.
I have found what I think is somehow related to the problem but I'm not really sure:
Missing UI X server panel in GUI nvidia X server settings.
At least both the Arch wiki and other sources reference items such as this one but I can't find them.
Following the Arch wiki on avoiding screen tearing , I tried running:
$ sudo nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }"
But when i try to assign this i get:
ERROR: Error resolving target specification '' (No targets match target specification), specified in
assignment 'CurrentMetaMode=nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }'.
I have tried searching the internet for more information on this, but
can’t seem to find out what this means.
Here is some system info:
$ nvidia-smi
Tue May 25 13:28:57 2021
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 465.31 Driver Version: 465.31 CUDA Version: 11.3 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce ... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 36C P8 N/A / N/A | 3MiB / 4046MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 2319 G /usr/lib/Xorg 2MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
$ lspci -k | grep -E "(VGA|3D)"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] (rev a2)
$ xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 2
Provider 0: id: 0x44 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 3 outputs: 2 associated providers: 0 name:modesetting
Provider 1: id: 0x23e cap: 0x0 crtcs: 0 outputs: 0 associated providers: 0 name:NVIDIA-G0
$ glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2)
$ inxi -Fxxxz
System: Kernel: 5.12.6-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.5
tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux
base: Arch Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 80Q0 v: Lenovo ideapad Y700-17ISK serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 10 v: Lenovo ideapad Y700-17ISK serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: Allsparks 7A v: SDK0J40688 WIN serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO v: CDCN54WW
date: 06/13/2017
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 45.8 Wh (100.0%) condition: 45.8/60.0 Wh (76.3%) volts: 16.4 min: 14.8
model: SMP L14M4P23 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full
CPU: Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-6700HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake-S rev: 3 cache:
L2: 6 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 41599
Speed: 3466 MHz min/max: 800/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3466 2: 3428 3: 3253 4: 3302
5: 3512 6: 3293 7: 3300 8: 3302
Graphics: Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:191b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] vendor: Lenovo driver: nvidia v: 465.31
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:139b class-ID: 0302
Device-3: Acer Lenovo EasyCamera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-6:2 chip-ID: 5986:0672
class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz s-dpi: 96
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.1 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.12.6-zen1-1-zen 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: 0.3.28 running: no
Network: Device-1: Intel Wireless 8260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 08:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:24f3 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp8s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169
v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp9s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-11:3
chip-ID: 8087:0a2b class-ID: e001
Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.03 TiB used: 28.75 GiB (2.7%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLW128HEGR-000L2 size: 119.24 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1L1QCXB7 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPCX-24HWST1 size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 1A02 scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / size: 101.99 GiB used: 28.75 GiB (28.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 252 MiB used: 546 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-3: /home size: 101.99 GiB used: 28.75 GiB (28.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-4: /var/log size: 101.99 GiB used: 28.75 GiB (28.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-5: /var/tmp size: 101.99 GiB used: 28.75 GiB (28.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 17 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 1.93 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram0
ID-3: swap-3 type: zram size: 1.93 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram1
ID-4: swap-4 type: zram size: 1.93 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram2
ID-5: swap-5 type: zram size: 1.93 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram3
ID-6: swap-6 type: zram size: 1.93 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram4
ID-7: swap-7 type: zram size: 1.93 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram5
ID-8: swap-8 type: zram size: 1.93 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram6
ID-9: swap-9 type: zram size: 1.93 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram7
ID-10: swap-10 type: partition size: 14.65 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 1024 dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 253 Uptime: 21m wakeups: 1 Memory: 15.46 GiB used: 2.1 GiB (13.6%) Init: systemd
v: 248 Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1932 Shell: fish v: 3.2.2
default: Zsh v: 5.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.04
Thanks for any input you might have, and if you need to know anything
else, please don’t hesitate to ask! 
