Hello everyone. I’ve read some posts before about Linux behaving poorly when using multiple monitors that have a different refresh rate.

Does anybody here know if X11 + AMDGPU + Mesa + Gnome handles this correctly? I’m thinking of getting a high refresh rate monitor (120hz+) while keeping my secondary at 60hz.

  • darcmage@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    When I was on X11 (kde), my 144hz monitor would frequently feel like it was operating at 60hz but I could never figure out what the cause was. I used to turn off my 60hz monitor before gaming as a workaround. I quickly switched to wayland and haven’t had to deal with it since.

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I have a 144Hz between a 60 Hz and a 75 Hz monitor.

      It’s not perfect, but does the job decently. In your ~/.profile:

      export KWIN_X11_REFRESH_RATE=144000
export KWIN_X11_NO_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=1
export KWIN_X11_FORCE_SOFTWARE_VSYNC=1

      If you enable TearFree, it makes the lack of proper vsync less noticeable and fixes the tearing caused by software vsync.

      OP’s probably SoL for Gnome though, because Gnome.