I currently have an AMD video card (6700 XT) and Wayland support is excellent. Also, multi-monitor support in Wayland works perfectly.

So what’s your experience with Nvidia’s 555 driver in Wayland? Those using it in conjunction with KDE 6.1, what’s your experience with multi-monitor VRR? I ask about VRR because I heard that multi-monitor VRR in Wayland is still problematic.

This is for my own curiosity if an Nvidia video card could be considered as an upgrade option.

  • NekuSoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de
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    4 months ago

    VRR does not work if you have a NVIDIA card and more than one monitor enabled.

    I recently learned that’s not entirely correct for Wayland. The critical thing is that VRR stops working if more than one enabled monitor is connected to the NVIDIA GPU. Meaning that if you connect only one display to the NVIDIA GPU and the other monitors to the integrated GPU it should just work.

    I felt pretty stupid when I realized that I could’ve just switched a single cable and be using VRR way earlier. Didn’t even need a reboot to work. For reference, I’m using a NVIDIA GPU + AMD CPU with 1 G-Sync as my main monitor and one non-VRR as my secondary monitor.

    • Virkkunen@fedia.io
      1·
      4 months ago

      That… Makes sense, really. And how would you do on about it? Just switching the cable to the motherboard IO? No need to use stuff like optimus?

      Sadly I will have to live with this issue since my 5900x has no iGPU, but I do plan to upgrade to a 7800x3d

      • NekuSoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de
        2·
        4 months ago

        Yup. I’ve never done anything besides installing NVIDIA drivers. Just switching the cable of the secondary monitor to the motherboard ports and it just worked. No reboot even, just making sure that adaptive sync is enabled in KDE or wherever.