Ubuntu

Video Driver bug

Bug #1927841 reported by Stephan Foley on 2021-05-09

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Bug in reference to following thread:

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2461782&s=9ad35211215b73d6cbf67fb92aba2f3d

High CPU usage when playing video. Perhaps video driver is broken.

Thanks

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-71.79-generic 5.4.101
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-71-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16
Architecture: amd64
BootLog:

CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
Date: Sat May 8 22:45:38 2021
DistUpgraded: 2021-01-20 18:40:35,770 DEBUG Running PostInstallScript: './xorg_fix_proprietary.py'
DistroCodename: focal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
bcmwl, 6.30.223.271+bdcom, 5.4.0-70-generic, x86_64: installed
bcmwl, 6.30.223.271+bdcom, 5.4.0-71-generic, x86_64: installed
bcmwl, 6.30.223.271+bdcom, 5.4.0-72-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia, 460.73.01, 5.4.0-71-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia, 460.73.01, 5.4.0-72-generic, x86_64: installed
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
NVIDIA Corporation GF108GLM [NVS 5200M] [10de:0dfc] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell GF108GLM [NVS 5200M] [1028:0534]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-28 (527 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04.3 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190805)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6430
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-71-generic root=UUID=30308586-4789-4d6a-a187-d4dcd1088e96 ro
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2021-01-20 (108 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 05/20/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A12
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA12:bd05/20/2013:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6430:pvr01:rvnDellInc.:rn:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6430
dmi.product.sku: Latitude E6430
dmi.product.version: 01
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
modified.conffile..etc.default.apport:
# set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
# you can temporarily override this with
# sudo service apport start force_start=1
enabled=0
mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2019-11-30T18:10:00.991898
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.102-1ubuntu1~20.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 20.2.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 20.2.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.9-2ubuntu1.2~20.04.2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:19.1.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20200226-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.16-1

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Stephan Foley (riverhawk) wrote on 2021-05-09:

CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (72.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (8.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgLog.txt Edit (12.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmDisplayLog.txt Edit (1012 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmLog.txt Edit (9.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (40.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci-vt.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (633 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb-t.txt Edit (677 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb-v.txt Edit (38.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (4.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (5.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (184.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (26.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (27.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
acpidump.txt Edit (274.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2021-05-10:

Thanks for the bug report. VLC and Mplayer do not enable hardware acceleration by default that I know of. So high CPU is expected. Please try using 'mpv' for the most performant experience.

If I have missed anything then please state it here in this bug instead of providing external links.

affects:	xorg (Ubuntu) → ubuntu
Changed in ubuntu:
status:	New → Invalid

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Stephan Foley (riverhawk) wrote on 2021-05-11:

This was very helpful. On ubuntuforums, it was suggested that I check the "Optimus" setting under the "Video" menu in the BIOS. That solved half the problem. Then following your suggestion and changing the Multimedia engine in SMPlayer to /usr/bin/mpv solved the other half.

Nvidia currently works and CPU usage is now around 10%, which I am pretty amazed about. Thanks!