Freesync, Tearfree, or Variable Refresh on Wayland

[syerra]

How on earth do you enable Freesync in the latest GNOME Manjaro?

For example, to change the value of freesync_video, which is presently “0”.

Creating a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf has not helped.

It’s the exact same problem posted a year ago by u/Pyotrech.

Can someone help me explaining how to activate it, please?

It wasn’t solved.

Thanks in advance.

[Yochanan]

Welcome to the forum!

I imagine this will help you: Variable refresh rate - ArchWiki

If you still need assistance, please review the following and share the pertinent information so others will be able to help: [HowTo] Request support

[syerra]

I’ve tried that. To answer

First the Archwiki refers to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf. My instance is Wayland and this did not work.
Second, xrandr --props does not output
vrr_capable: 1
range: (0, 1)
it outputs
Screen 0: minimum 16 x 16, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
XWAYLAND0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 530mm x 300mm
RANDR Emulation: 1
non-desktop: 0
supported: 0, 1
with available resolutions

systool -vm amdgpu does give an output, and it’s in the parameters for Module = “amdgpu”

freesync_video = “0”

Creating an /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf file did not enable freesync or change the value outputted by systool. Any other solutions?

[Johanides]

Switch to X (on login screen).

[omano]

@syerra

Any other solutions?

Don’t use Wayland if you try to configure X11 and expect your X11 configuration to work… That sounds obvious, no?

[Zesko]

@syerra

vrr_capable: 1
range: (0, 1)

Variable refresh rate (VRR) has already been enabled.

See the limitation in Arch Wiki:

GNOME Wayland is not yet supported [15]

AFAIK, freesync works fine on KDE Wayland with Amdgpu + monitor with official freesync, KDE Xorg does not, but it uses “V-Sync”.

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Edit:

@syerra

systool -vm amdgpu does give an output, and it’s in the parameters for Module = “amdgpu”

freesync_video = “0”

If you want freesync_video = "1", then add a kernel parameter amdgpu.freesync_video:

For GRUB user:

1. Edit /etc/default/grub.

2. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= adds amdgpu.freesync_video=1

3. Run $ sudo update-grub and reboot.

If you use Wayland, you do not need to create the config /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf for X11 only.

@syerra

Second, xrandr --props does not output

Do not use xrandr --props for X11 only. Try to install wlr-randr or gnome-randr-rust from AUR

[syerra]

THANK YOU Zesko!

It did occur to me that going into the /etc/X11 folder to configure Wayland was a stretch, but I thought maybe a Wayland config folder I didn’t know about might’ve pointed to it Okay Okay…
Thank you for the gnome-randr-rust program, I’d never heard of it. It’s in the early stages, with only three subcommands: help, modify and query, but it works!

Also, most of all, thank you for

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= adds amdgpu.freesync_video=1

That solved my problem.

Shame there isn’t another option than to modify the grub file. There should be a .conf file you can fiddle with instead.

[Yochanan]

There is. Instead of modifying the kernel parameters in /etc/default/grub, you can add a configuration file to /etc/modprobe.d/; i.e, amd-freesync.conf with the following contents:

options amdgpu.freesync_video=1