NVIDIA RTX 4060 Display Issues on Arch Linux

System Configuration

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
  • Monitor: YMF-VA27-01 (1920x1080@144Hz)
  • Motherboard: BIOSTAR B450MH
  • Display Connection: HDMI
  • NVIDIA Driver Version: 565.77
  • Kernel Version: 6.12.10-arch1-1

Issue Description

Severe visual artifacts and screen tearing present in both display manager (GDM/SDDM) and desktop environment. Issues persist across X11 and Wayland sessions.

Symptoms

  1. Multiple duplicated UI elements in the top bar
  2. Screen tearing throughout the interface
  3. Visual artifacts making the system nearly unusable
  4. Issues present immediately after fresh Arch Linux installation

Current Display Detection

Number of GPUs: 1
GPU #0:
  Name      : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
  UUID      : GPU-ddf7c8aa-0eb2-cf47-a75c-3e3476db6802
  PCI BusID : PCI:8:0:0
  Number of Display Devices: 1
  Display Device 0 (TV-4):
      No EDID information available.

Available Display Outputs:

/sys/class/drm/
card0       card0-DP-2  card0-HDMI-A-1  version
card0-DP-1  card0-DP-3  renderD128

Configuration Attempts

NVIDIA Driver Configuration

Current NVIDIA module status:

nvidia-drm             135168  15
drm_ttm_helper         16384   2 nvidia_drm
nvidia_uvm           3837952   0
nvidia_modeset       1671168   6 nvidia_drm
video                  81920   1 nvidia_modeset
nvidia              77496320  84 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset

Xorg Configuration

Multiple configurations attempted:

  1. Basic NVIDIA configuration with KMS
  2. Forced composition pipeline
  3. Custom EDID implementation
  4. Display-specific configuration for HDMI output

Kernel Parameters

Current parameters:

nvidia-drm.modeset=1 nvidia.NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1

nvidia-bug-report.log (1.2 MB)