Hey, I am new to linux. I am running clear installation of Manjaro 20.0.4 with KDE Plasma. I have two monitors. One 60hz without freesync, second 144hz with freesync.
The only thing thats is running at 144 fps is cursor and games. The whole dekstop environment is running only 60fps.
I found a fix. I had to create file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf
and add the following:
Section "Device"
Identifier "AMD"
Driver "amdgpu"
Option "TearFree" "true"
Option "VariableRefresh" "true"
EndSection
Finally all is smooth as it should be. But it’s not. Browsers like firefox and all chromium based browsers are still at 60fps
I found another solution for this. I had to create this file ~/.config/chrome-flags.conf
--use-gl=egl
--ignore-gpu-blocklist
--enable-gpu-rasterization
Browser is also running smooth finally.
I tried to run the desktop on Wayland. 144hz is running totally fine out of the box. Except browsers again. Browsers are at 60 fps sadly. Unfortunately on wayland this flag --use-gl=egl is not working anymore. Instead of giving me 144 fps expirience I have 15 fps expirence with this flag. I found some issue here. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1041228 It's about year old and of course there is no fix or any solution for this. I tried to use --use-gl=desktop but it's totally same with it or without it. Still 60 fps.
I have icons only task manager on each monitor. On xorg I have problem with minimize animation. It’s minimizing on left monitor. When I minimize some app on right monitor than it should to minimize it to right monitor’s task bar but insetead the animation is going to the left monitor’s task bar. This is only on Xorg. On Xorg I feel that I don’t have two minitors but just one big screen that is joined.
On Wayland is all fine except the browser is only 60 fps and I didn’t fine any solution for this. Here is what i mean:
For me as a newbie is really ridiculous that linux can't run 144hz out of the box. Only one 144hz monitor is fine. But if you have two monitors with different refesh rates.... It's pain.
I don’t know but I always read that AMD GPU’s are way better than Nvidia on Linux. I don’t think so because nothing is working for me and this is not manjaro specific. It’s on all distors that I tried.
I don’t know if am I the only person that own’s two minitors with different refhesh rates and with AMD GPU. It’s really killing me that this basic things are not working. It’s killing me more that there is no solution for this or I can’t even found one. Maybe is because of AMD GPU? I have no idea. As newbie on Linux I think I leave it alone and stick to Windows again.
System:
Kernel: 5.10.34-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
root=UUID=5418c255-59ab-4065-b0c4-4cb2a1705476 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: B450M BAZOOKA (MS-7A38) v: 3.0
serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: H.E0 date: 06/11/2020
Battery:
Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.65 GiB used: 2.16 GiB (13.8%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2
family: 17 (23) model-id: 71 (113) stepping: 0 microcode: 8701021 cache:
L2: 3 MiB bogomips: 86399
Speed: 1866 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 1866 2: 1866 3: 2199 4: 2196 5: 2799 6: 2199 7: 2199 8: 2199 9: 1866
10: 1866 11: 2797 12: 2199
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy
constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total cqm_occup_llc
cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid
fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibs irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm
mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc
nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq
pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse
pse36 rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es sha_ni
skinit smap smca sme smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp
succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_vmsave_vmload
vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wbnoinvd wdt xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr
xsaveopt xsaves
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 29:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:67df class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x285mm (40.0x11.2")
s-diag: 1055mm (41.5")
Monitor-1: DisplayPort-0 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 82 size: 598x336mm (23.5x13.2")
diag: 686mm (27")
Monitor-2: DisplayPort-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 82
size: 598x336mm (23.5x13.2") diag: 686mm (27")
OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 570 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.40.0
5.10.34-1-MANJARO LLVM 11.1.0)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590]
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 29:00.1
chip-ID: 1002:aaf0 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 2b:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487
class-ID: 0403
Device-3: C-Media Blue Snowball type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-2:3 chip-ID: 0d8c:0005
class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Device-4: COOLING.PL Zdziech Spolka Jawn VIRO Plus type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-3:4 chip-ID: 3299:4e4e
class-ID: 0300
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.34-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: no
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.26 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 25:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp37s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.95 TiB used: 36.68 GiB (1.2%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Kingston model: SA2000M81000G
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: S5Z42105 temp: 39.9 C
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37240G
size: 223.57 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 5A scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZRZ-00Z5HB0
size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 0A80 scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 223.27 GiB size: 218.71 GiB (97.96%)
used: 36.68 GiB (16.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A
uuid: 5418c255-59ab-4065-b0c4-4cb2a1705476
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: NO_LABEL
uuid: 7D87-9456
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
file: /swapfile
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 size: 100 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A
uuid: 387D-31F5
ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 930.91 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
uuid: 027A82FD7A82ED2B
ID-4: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 500 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
uuid: CA18F70118F6EAF9
ID-5: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 size: 1.82 TiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
uuid: 368EAD708EAD28F7
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 10 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-1:2 info: Itron iONE TESORO GRAM XS type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: 195d:2058 class-ID: 0301
Device-2: 3-2:3 info: C-Media Blue Snowball type: Audio,HID
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0d8c:0005 class-ID: 0300
serial: <filter>
Device-3: 3-3:4 info: COOLING.PL Zdziech Spolka Jawn VIRO Plus
type: Audio,HID driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4
rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 3299:4e4e class-ID: 0300
Device-4: 3-4:5 info: Razer USA RZ01-0265 Gaming Mouse [Basilisk Essential]
type: Mouse,Keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 1532:0065 class-ID: 0300
Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 54.6 C mobo: 0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 45.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 1013
Info:
Processes: 310 Uptime: 3m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 1249 lib: 356 flatpak: 0
Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.04