Optimus manager in Wayland

I have a laptop (amd cpu + nvidia discrete gpu) and an external 165Hz 1080P monitor. On xorg everything is fine but if I switch to wayland, the max refresh rate of my external display is limited to ~84 Hz. Optimus manager (also tries nv control, same result) is not working on wayland or I should say nvidia prime is not working properly on wayland. Is there any solution?

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System:
  Host: Ultron Kernel: MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 11.1.0 parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64
    root=UUID=ae8ac2cf-fbd1-473d-bfff-8e6b11a36512 rw rootflags=subvol=@
    quiet splash resume=UUID=7d46ec8f-c2ad-472b-b831-1e162c8d9316
    udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: Plasma
    Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: OMEN Laptop 15-en0xxx v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8786 v: 22.58 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI
    v: F.13 date: 03/04/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 58.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 58.4/58.4 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 12.8 min: 11.6 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion
    serial: N/A status: Full cycles: 525
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Zen 2 family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x60 (96) stepping: 1
    microcode: 0x8600106
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB
    L3: 8 MiB desc: 2x4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1527 high: 2960 min/max: 1400/3000 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1397 2: 1397
    3: 1397 4: 1397 5: 1396 6: 1397 7: 1397 8: 1397 9: 1397 10: 2960 11: 1397
    12: 1397 bogomips: 71895
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
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  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
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    IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
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  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU116M [GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile]
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nvidia v:
    alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2191
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: AMD Renoir vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel
    bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1636 class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Luxvisions Innotech Limited HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: USB
    driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-3:2 chip-ID: 30c9:000e class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.org 1.21.1.3 compositor: gnome-shell driver:
    loaded: amdgpu,nvidia unloaded: modesetting,nouveau,radeon failed: ati
    alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
  Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aeb
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel
    alternate: snd_pci_acp3x,snd_pci_acp5x bus-ID: 07:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2
    class-ID: 0480
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 07:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.21-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.45 running: no
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: 30:24:a9:89:55:7a
  Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0
    chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: 78:2b:46:4a:91:60
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 3-4:3 chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.38 TiB used: 15.42 GiB (1.1%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  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 type: SSD serial: 50026B768474B93C
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  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:2 vendor: Samsung
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Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 460.08 GiB size: 460.08 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 15.42 GiB (3.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:4
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 568 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1 maj-min: 259:3
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 460.08 GiB size: 460.08 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 15.42 GiB (3.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:4
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 460.08 GiB size: 460.08 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 15.42 GiB (3.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:4
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.56 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme1n1p3 maj-min: 259:5
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 37.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 347 Uptime: 24m wakeups: 1 Memory: 15.06 GiB
  used: 2.55 GiB (16.9%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
  gcc: N/A Packages: pacman: 991 lib: 292 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8
  running-in:

Hi @Computer_Email23,

Honestly?

:man_shrugging:

Especially since you mentioned Nvidia and Wayland together.

All I can suggest is looking through the Arch wiki, maybe there’s something useful:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Wayland

Edit:

And besides, that refresh rate is totally unnecessary. Just set everything lower, say 60Hz, and you’re good to go, especially since the human eye can only see at max 24FPS (if I remember correctly, but it’s something like that anyway.)

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This could be the cable quality and the connection type DP vs. HDMI vs. Thunderbolt

I have read somewhere about limitations - something with pixel bandwidth - don’t know any more than a user was advised - for Plasma - add to /etc/environment - for kwin it defaults to 30 but lowering the value made a change

KWIN_DRM_PREFER_COLOR_DEPTH=24

Source: https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/comment/342687

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thanks for replying
in xorg i am getting 165Hz no problem

I have one laptop display and another external display. scaling on laptop display defaults to 125% and 100% on external display, while using plasma on wayland. So I want to use plasma with wayland because it supports different scaling on different displays.

The scaling has nothing to do with the refresh rate…

So try capping your refresh rate…

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but that is not a real solution

I guess DSC is not working in wayland then. In order to get a high refresh rate it needs to sacrifice something. If croma subsampling (DSC) is not working, it will limit the refresh rate, to fit the available bandwidth.

It could be also true, that xorg uses a color subsampling of 4:2:0 and wayland uses 4:4:4.