Hmmm π€
So today i blogged about my steps for enhancing the #ArchLinux experience on the #T440 (Intel only). This includes one solution for overall bad fps which is totally annoying and yes i made it from unusable to 'i can barely barely live with this but it makes me feel sick' (nk). I made no progress with hours of research multible times, so i though it's hardware but now i booted Windows and have nothing to complain really except that it's Windows but everything works well. ...kinda sad.
@milan Ohh.. and did you see anything in journalctl?
@shellkr no, didn't see anything wrong looking in dmesg/journalctl.
@milan Then it is pretty hard to troubleshoot.. only guesswork. If it works okay in Windows it should be fixable... somehow...
Could it be Wayland? Did you see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_T440s?
Are you sure you got the hardware rendering? i.e. not missing a package or something like that.
@shellkr i...how is this wiki article related to this? it just links to the intel page ...or is there something i don't see? o.O
well if you mean this vdpau ... -ish... stuff, ... the wiki stated gma 4500+ support but i got 4400 :/
@milan I was thinking of the resolution scaling part. From a far off chance the flickering comes from a dpi issue..
@shellkr hmm but it affects both, external and internal screen the same π€
@milan What do you mean with internal and external? Like if you connect it to an extra monitor? Yeah, it is not so likely... but as it was suggested there I thought I mention it.
@shellkr yea it is connected to an external monitor right now
@milan Perhaps it's a Hz thing? Have you played around with Xrandr to see if something works better than the other. Is it ips or tn screen(s)?
@shellkr everything. it is a slight flickering on moving object which is really bad for the/my eyes and makes me feel bad. uhm...i am using mesa and wayland, i tried to use xorg with modesetting because it didn't start with mesa for some reason, maybe my fault ... however not even the tearfree option had any effect (and yes i had tearing) (i did not use the *video-intel driver as recommended in the wiki though.
@milan Perhaps you could try that. Did you put the "AccelMethod" "sna" as TearFree does not work with uxa... and did you try to disable vsync?
This is what I got installed on my NUC.
@milan ohh.. and that you set up the microcode https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microcode and added i915 to the module section in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
@shellkr i915 is active, microcode was missing, i had to adjust my partition layout in order to be able to set this up but it did not change anything.. :/
@milan Do you mean fps in games or just in general?
Did you try the uxa/sna trick?