Zeash
April 13, 2025, 6:47pm
1
Hi,
I’ve installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my PC and noticed short but noticable video/audio stutters. From what I can tell, though not even this is consistent, they occur whenever I open an app or Plasma menu I haven’t opened in that session. I haven’t found anything of note in the journal and as I said, this is incredibly inconsistent. Some apps cause stutters only when opened the first time and never again, others several times in a row, and I can’t figure out why (though I think this will be easy to dismiss as an Nvidia problem).
System information pulled from KDE’s info center app:
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250405
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.14.0-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 6 × AMD Ryzen 5 3500X 6-Core Processor
Memory: 15,5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: B550M AORUS PRO-P
I installed the G06 Nvidia driver following the SDB guide .
Any help is much appreciated
Zeash
April 13, 2025, 7:30pm
3
Output of zypper se -s nvidiais too long, so I filtered only the installed packages:
S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
---+-------------------------------------------+---------+--------------------------+--------+--------------
i | kernel-firmware-nvidia | package | 20250206-2.1 | noarch | repo-oss
i | libnvidia-egl-gbm1 | package | 1.1.2-7.7 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i | libnvidia-egl-gbm1-32bit | package | 1.1.2-7.6 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i | libnvidia-egl-wayland1 | package | 1.1.18-46.3 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i | libnvidia-egl-wayland1-32bit | package | 1.1.18-46.3 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i | libnvidia-egl-x111 | package | 1.0.1-9.9 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i | libnvidia-egl-x111-32bit | package | 1.0.1-9.7 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i | nvidia-common-G06 | package | 570.133.07-33.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i | nvidia-compute-G06 | package | 570.133.07-33.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i | nvidia-compute-G06-32bit | package | 570.133.07-33.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i+ | nvidia-compute-utils-G06 | package | 570.133.07-33.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i | nvidia-gl-G06 | package | 570.133.07-33.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i | nvidia-gl-G06-32bit | package | 570.133.07-33.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i | nvidia-modprobe | package | 570.133.07-12.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i | nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-default | package | 570.133.07_k6.14.0_1-1.2 | x86_64 | repo-oss
i | nvidia-persistenced | package | 570.133.07-2.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i+ | nvidia-video-G06 | package | 570.133.07-33.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i | nvidia-video-G06-32bit | package | 570.133.07-33.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i+ | openSUSE-repos-Tumbleweed-NVIDIA | package | 20250324.7d1bc96-1.1 | x86_64 | repo-oss
Output of inxi -aFz:
System:
Kernel: 6.14.0-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.14.0-1-default
root=/dev/mapper/system-root splash=silent mitigations=auto quiet
security=selinux selinux=1 enforcing=1 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.4 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.12.0
wm: kwin_wayland tools: avail: xscreensaver vt: 3 dm: SDDM Distro: openSUSE
Tumbleweed 20250405
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: B550M AORUS PRO-P v: N/A
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: B550M AORUS PRO-P serial: <superuser required>
uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F15a
date: 02/16/2022
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming
Mouse serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 3500X bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Zen 2 gen: 2
level: v3 note: check built: 2020-22 process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x71 (113) stepping: 0 microcode: 0x8701034
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 6 smt: <unsupported> cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB
L3: 32 MiB desc: 2x16 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3815 min/max: 550/4121 boost: enabled scaling:
driver: amd-pstate-epp governor: powersave cores: 1: 3815 2: 3815 3: 3815
4: 3815 5: 3815 6: 3815 bogomips: 43338
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: ghostwrite status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT disabled
Type: spec_rstack_overflow mitigation: SMT disabled
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; STIBP:
disabled; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 Rev. A] vendor: ZOTAC
driver: nvidia v: 570.133.07 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm
non-free: 550/565.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-01; EOL~2026-12-xx)
arch: Turing code: TUxxx process: TSMC 12nm FF built: 2018-2022 pcie:
gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: DP-1,HDMI-A-1
empty: DP-2,DP-3 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f08 class-ID: 0300
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: nvidia
unloaded: modesetting,vesa alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv
gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch d-rect: 3840x1080 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-1 pos: right model: Dell S2421HS serial: <filter>
built: 2020 res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 75 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 93 gamma: 1.2
size: 527x296mm (20.75x11.65") diag: 604mm (23.8") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
Monitor-2: HDMI-A-1 pos: primary,left model: Samsung LC24RG50
serial: <filter> built: 2020 res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 144 scale: 100% (1)
dpi: 92 gamma: 1.2 size: 532x304mm (20.94x11.97") diag: 613mm (24.1")
ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia gbm:
drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 vendor: nvidia v: 570.133.07 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2
memory: 5.86 GiB display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 layers: 1 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:1f08
surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-smi wl: wayland-info
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: ZOTAC
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 04:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 06:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Logitech Logitech G PRO X Gaming Headset
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-10.4:6 chip-ID: 046d:0aaa class-ID: 0300
serial: <filter>
API: ALSA v: k6.14.0-1-default status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.1 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel
pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager,sshd
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.26 TiB used: 66.1 GiB (2.9%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT480BX500SSD1
size: 447.13 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 041 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000MX500SSD1
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 046 scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM010-2EP102
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> fw-rev: CC43 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 200 GiB size: 200 GiB (100.00%) used: 18.57 GiB (9.3%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0 mapped: system-root
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%)
used: 37.4 MiB (38.9%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 300 GiB size: 300 GiB (100.00%)
used: 47.49 GiB (15.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 254:1
mapped: system-home
ID-4: /opt raw-size: 200 GiB size: 200 GiB (100.00%)
used: 18.57 GiB (9.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: system-root
ID-5: /var raw-size: 200 GiB size: 200 GiB (100.00%)
used: 18.57 GiB (9.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: system-root
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 37.6 C mobo: 37.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.52 GiB used: 4.88 GiB (31.4%)
Processes: 384 Power: uptime: 2h 7m states: freeze,mem suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: disabled image: 6.18 GiB
services: org_kde_powerdevil,upowerd Init: systemd v: 257
default: graphical tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm tools: yast,zypper pm: flatpak
pkgs: 19 Compilers: N/A Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 running-in: kitty inxi: 3.3.37
Upgrade BIOS. Then load BIOS defaults and set it up.
Zeash
April 13, 2025, 7:45pm
5
I’ll try later, but can I just ask why? For future reference and out of curiosity. As in did that help with similar issues before or?
Right now it provides protection from different SMM vulnerabilities:
It also can help with another issues. I doubt that it will help in your specific case, but who knows…
@Zeash Where are the stuttering audio / video files stored? On the Seagate HDD?
Perhaps examine the GPU loading with nvtop…https://www.cyberciti.biz/hardware/nvtop-command-in-linux-to-monitor-nvidia-amd-intel-gpus/
Zeash
April 13, 2025, 9:28pm
9
On the SSDs, I don’t have anything related to this installation on the HDD. And yes, this is a new installation
@Zeash @deano_ferrari zypper in nvtop note, newer Intel GPU’s require setcap cap_perfmon=ep /usr/bin/nvtop for memory consumption.
Zeash
April 13, 2025, 10:33pm
11
Btw, when I say “video/audio stutters”, I’m not referring to a single application. The whole system stutters during these actions
FWIW, there are others experiencing similar with NVIDIA recent graphics drivers and Plasma Wayland…
When GSP firmware is enabled on Wayland session, scrolling in all browsers (Google Chrome, Brave-chromium based, Firefox) has stuttering and generally low fps. (My monitor has 170Hz and the scrolling is dropping down to around 90-100FPS)...
Reading time: 2 mins 🕑
Likes: 13 ❤
Hello everyone! I encountered frequent lags and loss of smoothness in KDE Plasma on Wayland (slightly better on X11, but the problem remains) when using two monitors on a system with an NVIDIA 3070 Ti. Information about the system: OS: Arch...
Reading time: 5 mins 🕑
Likes: 9 ❤
There are comments about possible p-state issues and GSP. Also, are you using VRR monitors?
I’m on GNOME here, as well as using the run file;
nvidia-smi -q | grep "Firmware Version"
GSP Firmware Version : 570.133.07
nvidia-smi
Sun Apr 13 18:59:50 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 570.133.07 Driver Version: 570.133.07 CUDA Version: 12.8 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| 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 T400 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 38% 35C P8 N/A / 31W | 31MiB / 2048MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1394 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2144 C+G /usr/bin/ptyxis 27MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
cat /etc/modprobe.d/50-nvidia-tweaks.conf
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
##Power Management
## Disable runtime D3 power management features
##options nvidia NVreg_DynamicPowerManagement=0x00
## Allow the GPU to go into its lowest power state when no applications are running
options nvidia NVreg_DynamicPowerManagement=0x02
## For suspending, make sure not using tmpfs!
options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1
options nvidia NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/var/tmp
## Enable the PAT feature
options nvidia NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable=1
## Enable PCI 3.0
##options nvidia NVreg_EnablePCIeGen3=1
## Support for CUDA Stream Memory Operations in user-mode applications.
options nvidia NVreg_EnableStreamMemOPs=1
@Zeash can you show the output from cat /proc/driver/nvidia/params | sort
1 Like
Zeash
April 14, 2025, 9:55am
15
Can’t say I’ve noticed any increased load on the GPU during stutters. Same goes for disks
Zeash
April 14, 2025, 9:55am
16
Output of cat /proc/driver/nvidia/params | sort:
CreateImexChannel0: 0
DeviceFileGID: 482
DeviceFileMode: 432
DeviceFileUID: 0
DmaRemapPeerMmio: 1
DynamicPowerManagement: 3
DynamicPowerManagementVideoMemoryThreshold: 200
EnableDbgBreakpoint: 0
EnableGpuFirmware: 18
EnableGpuFirmwareLogs: 2
EnableMSI: 1
EnablePCIeGen3: 0
EnablePCIERelaxedOrderingMode: 0
EnableResizableBar: 0
EnableS0ixPowerManagement: 1
EnableStreamMemOPs: 0
EnableUserNUMAManagement: 1
ExcludedGpus: ""
GpuBlacklist: ""
GrdmaPciTopoCheckOverride: 0
IgnoreMMIOCheck: 0
ImexChannelCount: 2048
InitializeSystemMemoryAllocations: 1
KMallocHeapMaxSize: 0
MemoryPoolSize: 0
ModifyDeviceFiles: 1
NvLinkDisable: 0
OpenRmEnableUnsupportedGpus: 1
PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations: 1
RegisterPCIDriver: 1
RegistryDwords: ""
RegistryDwordsPerDevice: ""
ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295
RmLogonRC: 1
RmMsg: ""
RmNvlinkBandwidthLinkCount: 0
RmProfilingAdminOnly: 1
S0ixPowerManagementVideoMemoryThreshold: 256
TemporaryFilePath: "/var/tmp"
UsePageAttributeTable: 4294967295
VMallocHeapMaxSize: 0
Zeash
April 14, 2025, 10:09am
17
I’ve confirmed the issue in question only occurs on Wayland. X11 is extremely laggy overall but otherwise there are no audio stutters so I’m guessing they’re unrelated issues (and I don’t really care for X11).
As for the linked posts, scrolling in general is fine for me, it’s only when I open a new menu/app that the stuttering occurs. I have noticed it once when I pulled by browser out of maximized mode with my mouse. Otherwise it’s been “consistent”
Zeash
April 14, 2025, 10:20am
18
I’ve found the cause. Setting my Dell monitor’s refresh rate to 60Hz fixed it. The only thing that comes to mind is that I set it to 75Hz once before I installed the drivers. The top 1/6th of that screen turned black and I concluded it was because drivers were missing. After I installed them I tried again and I could see everything on the screen but obviously this issue also appeared.
I can help in troubleshooting further if anyone’s interested, though tbh I don’t really care that much about my second monitor’s refresh rate. More so about figuring it out for future reference
1 Like