Kernel is 5.13
Seems others are having the same issue and I can’t see any solutions posted anywhere. Don’t really understand a lot of the tech stuff people are talking about.
Some have said it’s possibly related to USB, so I unplugged my USB mouse, rebooted, but it immediately froze again.
I think you may have landed on a problematic option your NVMe may have. This solution could help out:
Thanks! I’ll give it a go
Anytime! After all your trials, I see you becoming the Linux source of wisdom in Australia!
Sadly no good. Still freezes up. =(
Someone else is talking about disabling APST - what does that mean to you?
Seems it’s in relation to installing a new SSD, which obviously doesn’t apply to me.
Can’t easily see how to disable APST (aka PTSD haha).
Has to be a Pop_OS issue surely? SInce Ubuntu and Manjaro were fine. Just need to get the NVIDIA driver installed under Manjaro…
Reading a bit more it seems most likely it’s an Nvidia problem
From this link:
I found that my VGA Model is GA107
lspci -k | grep -EA3 ‘VGA|3D|Display’ interestingly gives me 2 results… nvidia and amdgpu
when I was expecting to see one only (eg. nouveau or nvidia).
What do you make of this? - is it possible to have 2 drivers installed? And would they clash?
Can barely do anything without freezing - took me 3 attempts just to type that command
Had to reinstall Manjaro.
Above command also returns 2 results - nouveau and amdgpu, so I guess that’s normal.
Went through the Nvidia install as per this link:
(sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300)
and now have nvidia / amdgpu.
nvidia-settings --version returns 470.63.01
You are an endless well of mysteries, my friend! I’ve seen combos between Nvidia and Intel or Intel and AMD graphics cards. However, AMD with Nvidia?!
As I said, you’re gonna be the Linux Wise Man of Australia!
Haven’t done anything other than install Manjaro iso and then install Nvidia driver… I wouldn’t dare fiddle around with anything else at this stage, without your guidance.
Anyway, Unity runs on Manjaro but still leaves artifacts and doesn’t look good. Is this the Nvidia driver you would expect to see?
Should I be (somehow) uninstalling AMD driver?
I’m curious to see something. Can you install the Inxi app?
sudo pacman -S inxi
And then send me the output of:
inxi -Fxxxzr
I’m curious to see how many graphics cards (and what type) your system has - as well as what drivers are running on each.
System: Kernel: 5.13.19-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2
wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ROG Zephyrus G14 GA401QC_GA401QC v: 1.0 serial:
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: GA401QC v: 1.0 serial: UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: GA401QC.406 date: 05/13/2021
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 79.5 Wh (100.0%) condition: 79.5/76.0 Wh (104.6%) volts: 15.8 min: 15.8
model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Not charging
CPU: Info: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 rev: 0 cache:
L2: 4 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 102241
Speed: 2805 MHz min/max: 1200/3200 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2805 2: 2347 3: 1394 4: 2306 5: 1732
6: 1356 7: 2172 8: 1793 9: 2006 10: 1915 11: 1783 12: 1820 13: 1197 14: 1197 15: 1197 16: 1197
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 470.63.01 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:25a2 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cezanne vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:1638 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati,nvidia
unloaded: modesetting,nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa resolution: 1: 1920x1080~144Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz s-dpi: 96
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.41.0 5.13.19-2-MANJARO LLVM 12.0.1) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.3 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:2291 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637
class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A
bus-ID: 04:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
Device-4: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 04:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.19-2-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.38 running: yes
Network: Device-1: MEDIATEK vendor: AzureWave driver: mt7921e v: kernel port: N/A bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:7961
class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac:
Bluetooth: Device-1: IMC Networks Wireless_Device type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-4:3 chip-ID: 13d3:3563
class-ID: e001 serial:
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives: Local Storage: total: 588.73 GiB used: 24.36 GiB (4.1%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLQ512HBLU-00B00 size: 476.94 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD
serial: rev: FXM7201Q temp: 36.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB model: SATA SSD size: 111.79 GiB type: SSD serial: scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / size: 468.09 GiB used: 24.36 GiB (5.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap: Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 48.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2400
Repos: Packages: pacman: 1206
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
1: https://mirrors.manjaro.org/repo/stable/$repo/$arch
2: https://mirror.moson.org/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
3: https://manjaro.kyberorg.fi/stable/$repo/$arch
Info: Processes: 344 Uptime: 1m wakeups: 2 Memory: 15.04 GiB used: 1.68 GiB (11.2%) Init: systemd v: 249 Compilers:
gcc: N/A Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 default: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.08
And there is your culprit! It’s the Radeon embedded inside your CPU! That’s the reason for all the artifacts and issues you’ve been having. So, our quest now becomes more focused. To disable the AMDGPU entirely and work with the Nvidia card - which is vastly superior.
Your laptop is considered to be an Optimus Enabled system, which means that it switches between graphics cards that have different power consumption profiles. For this, you will need the daemon/project called BumbleBee.
And here is its home page:
Just hold on the download. I’ll need to find a newer version of it first.
Since your Manjaro is Arch-based, the best solution to disable your AMD card and leave the Nvidia running is found here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hybrid_graphics
This one is much newer (June 2021).
Also, I would recommend looking into your BIOS. Chances are you can disable the Discreet Graphics option from there and be done with it easier. 
Boy that’s complex! Assumes a fair bit of prior knowledge. I’ll try to make sense of it as best I can, but some parts are not clear to me at all.
No Discrete Graphics option in BIOS btw. Looked through everything as I really wanted to find it!