Is it recommended to setup an xorg configuration file for the best experience? I’m using KDE on a Surface Pro 3 where the screen is 2160x1440.

I’ve got dpi settings and stuff mostly to what I like but I feel like it could be a bit better, thanks for the help.

Specs first,
Hardware: Surface Pro 3, i5, 4GB RAM, 128GB drive
OS: Antergos /w KDE updated fully minutes ago
Extra stuff: btrfs file sys, 5GB swap partition, seperate root and home partitions, etc.

I read on the arch wiki that btrfs doesn’t support swap files so I am good there, but I should be able to suspend in some capacity to ram or any of the states, but none of them work. I’ve tried suspend-to-ram, and hibernation.

I attempted to suspend-to-ram and then turn it back on and the computer screen stays black and shows no signs of life other than that I have to hold my power button for 10 seconds to force shuttoff the device which tells me it is on… And the lights on my keyboard are still on if I keep them on which is as expected since it’s only a basic suspend.

When I hibernate, the computer does turn off and stuff like I expect but the same problem happens where the computer seems to power on but the computer never really comes back and stays black. No flashing or or anything in either case. The back light stays off in both cases so there’s no sense that it is even half way on or something.

I remember maybe a few months ago that standby used to work in the 4.12 days I think, and hibernation “worked” but wifi would remain off and messed up until I had to reboot. I didn’t use my laptop much during the 4.11/12/13 transition much so I don’t know where this function stopped working, so thanks for any help and let me know what else I need to show to help maybe fix this issue or maybe issue a bug report, thanks!

I’ve tried to attach my logs but I don’t have permission to apparently, so maybe another way I can would be appreciated.

@anarch you got it!

Re: lately a lot of Error 502 Ray ID when visiting forum

Just me?

In the end I’d rather have one really good version then have one pretty good and one neglected one

Are there any BIG technical advantages to it (without opening up a can of worms)? I do get that systemd is a basically svhost on linux which bothers me a little however is OpenRC overall more simple to use or anything?

@judd good post and thanks for sharing but is there a question in here? The OP has unsolved in the title.

@godslayer for sure, sorry for the delay I got kinda busy

@n_mag These two links should get you going.

Start here to get you configuration file readied up.

Then go here and add the option to you file. Remember to put it under the the middle section that is tabbed over and above the “EndSection”

Should look like this below I believe.

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Intel Graphics"
    Driver           "intel"
    Option         "TearFree" "true"
EndSection

@gord I understand totally, I tried running it for a while and I just wanted to get in and running and Antergos was, and is, the perfect answer currently and it has been for years!

LightDM is the login screen and greeter that you see when you boot into Antergos after all the system bios stuff that happens. You log in with it and switch desktops with it as well. SDDM is the KDE alternative, and gdm is the Gnome alternative, and there’s more. I personally have liked lightDM the most when I have pros already set t up for me like the Antergos devs