Question Artifacts on Linux X11 Budgie DE - How best to get rid of them?

[3ick]

I own the following problem. Strange elements pop up that distract me while using the system.

In parallel, sometimes began to appear a problem with the left mouse button, I had once or twice the opportunity to see how it selects my item such as a picture, and it seems as if I did not let go of the activation of the button.

But mainly the problem is unwanted elements on the screen, they usually disappear for a while after cursor movements, but this is only temporary.

I am using EndeavourOS based on Arch. The graphics card is GeForce.

Here's a preview of what it looks like:

Result of my `inxi -Fxxc0z` is here.

System:
  Kernel: 6.12.6-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
  Desktop: Budgie v: 10.9.2 tk: GTK v: 3.24.43 wm: budgie-wm dm: LightDM
    Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B660M DS3H DDR4 v: x.x
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F6b
    date: 04/27/2022
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: 12th Gen Intel Core i3-12100F bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Alder Lake rev: 5 cache: L1: 320 KiB L2: 5 MiB L3: 12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4300 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800
    5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 bogomips: 52856
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER] vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: nvidia v: 565.77 arch: Turing pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
    active: none off: DP-3 empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:21c4
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
    compositor: budgie-wm driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
    display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1680x1050 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: DP-3 mapped: DP-4 note: disabled model: Dell P2217
    res: 1680x1050 dpi: 90 diag: 559mm (22")
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia gbm: drv: nvidia
    surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 vendor: nvidia v: 565.77 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-S HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:7ad0
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aeb
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.6-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel
    pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125
  IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 18.95 GiB (1.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: KIOXIA model: EXCERIA G2 SSD size: 931.51 GiB
    speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 32.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD Blue SA510 2.5 1000GB
    size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 97.87 GiB used: 18.93 GiB (19.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 96 MiB used: 27 MiB (28.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: 30.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.6 GiB used: 3 GiB (39.5%)
  Processes: 268 Power: uptime: 1h 37m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 257
    default: graphical
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 908 Compilers: gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash
    v: 5.2.37 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.36

 

[rustigsmed]

Looks like it could be some hardware starting to fail. but I think I read somewhere theres some issues with the 6.12 kernel and nvidia 565.77 driver? have you got another kernel version you can load into and try it out?

 

[3ick]

I see the following options at startup:

EndeavourOS Linux, with Linux linux
EndeavourOS Linux, with Linux linux (fallback initramfs)

This may not be a question strictly related to the main thread, but it makes me wonder what the second option does. I have a little problem formulating a sentence in English to find out about it.

have you got another kernel version you can load into and try it out?

I think I don't. Where can I read about changing the kernel? I would gladly accept some article for beginners, describing how to do it, it would be helpful.

And such a question, when changing the kernel to another, do the packages and drivers work without having to update them? What would be the recommended kernel version to install in my case? I don't know so I don't know what to follow when choosing. I have never changed the kernel, so this is a small challenge for me, which fits well done.

So some kind of article would be useful.