Laptop screen no longer recognised as high refresh rate

I have a laptop with a WQHD 240Hz screen. It was getting properly recognised before but at some point the refresh rate got limited to 60
xrandr output

Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 4480 x 1440, maximum 32767 x 32767
DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 connected 1920x1080+2560+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 477mm x 268mm
   1920x1080     60.00*+  59.94  
   1680x1050     59.95  
   1600x900      60.00  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1400x1050     59.98  
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1280x800      59.81  
   1280x720      60.00    59.94  
   1152x864      75.00  
   1024x768      75.03    60.00  
   800x600       75.00    60.32  
   720x480       59.94    59.94  
   640x480       75.00    59.94  
eDP-1-1 connected primary 2560x1440+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 381mm x 214mm
   2560x1440     60.00*+  59.99    59.99    59.96    59.95  
   1920x1440     60.00  
   1856x1392     60.01  
   1792x1344     60.01  
   2048x1152     59.99    59.98    59.90    59.91  
   1920x1200     59.88    59.95  
   1920x1080     60.01    59.97    59.96    59.93  
   1600x1200     60.00  
   1680x1050     59.95    59.88  
   1400x1050     59.98  
   1600x900      59.99    59.94    59.95    59.82  
   1280x1024     60.02  
   1400x900      59.96    59.88  
   1280x960      60.00  
   1440x810      60.00    59.97  
   1368x768      59.88    59.85  
   1280x800      59.99    59.97    59.81    59.91  
   1280x720      60.00    59.99    59.86    59.74  
   1024x768      60.04    60.00  
   960x720       60.00  
   928x696       60.05  
   896x672       60.01  
   1024x576      59.95    59.96    59.90    59.82  
   960x600       59.93    60.00  
   960x540       59.96    59.99    59.63    59.82  
   800x600       60.00    60.32    56.25  
   840x525       60.01    59.88  
   864x486       59.92    59.57  
   700x525       59.98  
   800x450       59.95    59.82  
   640x512       60.02  
   700x450       59.96    59.88  
   640x480       60.00    59.94  
   720x405       59.51    58.99  
   684x384       59.88    59.85  
   640x400       59.88    59.98  
   640x360       59.86    59.83    59.84    59.32  
   512x384       60.00  
   512x288       60.00    59.92  
   480x270       59.63    59.82  
   400x300       60.32    56.34  
   432x243       59.92    59.57  
   320x240       60.05  
   360x202       59.51    59.13  
   320x180       59.84    59.32  
DP-1-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
  1680x1050 (0x1c2) 146.250MHz -HSync +VSync
        h: width  1680 start 1784 end 1960 total 2240 skew    0 clock  65.29KHz
        v: height 1050 start 1053 end 1059 total 1089           clock  59.95Hz
  1280x1024 (0x1c7) 108.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width  1280 start 1328 end 1440 total 1688 skew    0 clock  63.98KHz
        v: height 1024 start 1025 end 1028 total 1066           clock  60.02Hz
  1280x800 (0x1c8) 83.500MHz -HSync +VSync
        h: width  1280 start 1352 end 1480 total 1680 skew    0 clock  49.70KHz
        v: height  800 start  803 end  809 total  831           clock  59.81Hz
  1024x768 (0x1cd) 65.000MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width  1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1344 skew    0 clock  48.36KHz
        v: height  768 start  771 end  777 total  806           clock  60.00Hz
  800x600 (0x1cf) 40.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width   800 start  840 end  968 total 1056 skew    0 clock  37.88KHz
        v: height  600 start  601 end  605 total  628           clock  60.32Hz
  640x480 (0x1d3) 25.175MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width   640 start  656 end  752 total  800 skew    0 clock  31.47KHz
        v: height  480 start  490 end  492 total  525           clock  59.94Hz

inxi output

System:
  Kernel: 5.16.7-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.16-x86_64
    root=UUID=97dd37d5-1395-4fe9-91a1-5c5335a75b8a rw nouveau.modeset=0 quiet
    splash apparmor=1 security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: GNOME 41.3 tk: GTK 3.24.31 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 41.3
    Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ROG Strix G733ZW_G733ZW v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: G733ZW v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: G733ZW.303 date: 12/27/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 90.3 Wh (100.0%) condition: 90.3/89.5 Wh (100.9%)
    volts: 17.4 min: 15.9 model: AS3GWYF3KC GA50358 type: Unknown
    serial: <filter> status: Full
Memory:
  RAM: total: 31.01 GiB used: 7.29 GiB (23.5%)
  RAM Report:
    permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900H bits: 64 type: MST AMCP
    arch: Alder Lake family: 6 model-id: 0x9A (154) stepping: 3 microcode: 0x413
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 14 mt: 6 tpc: 2 st: 8 threads: 20 smt: enabled
    cache: L1: 1.2 MiB desc: d-8x32 KiB, 6x48 KiB; i-6x32 KiB, 8x64 KiB
    L2: 11.5 MiB desc: 6x1.2 MiB, 2x2 MiB L3: 24 MiB desc: 1x24 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1846 high: 3849 min/max: 400/6300:6400:3800 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: performance cores: 1: 1302 2: 1249 3: 3423
    4: 581 5: 3849 6: 1052 7: 1040 8: 997 9: 3361 10: 915 11: 3111 12: 1212
    13: 1772 14: 871 15: 1078 16: 1916 17: 677 18: 3354 19: 1955 20: 3205
    bogomips: 116780
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
    arch_capabilities arch_lbr arch_perfmon art avx avx2 avx_vnni bmi1 bmi2 bts
    cat_l2 cdp_l2 clflush clflushopt clwb cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault
    cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est f16c
    flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fsrm fxsr gfni ht hwp
    hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify hwp_pkg_req ibpb ibrs ibrs_enhanced ida
    intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor
    movbe movdir64b movdiri msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx ospke pae pat pbe
    pcid pclmulqdq pconfig pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pku pln pni popcnt pse pse36
    pts rdpid rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep serialize sha_ni
    smap smep smx split_lock_detect ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp
    syscall tm tm2 tme tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer
    tsc_known_freq umip vaes vme vmx vnmi vpclmulqdq vpid waitpkg x2apic
    xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
  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
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P Integrated Graphics vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2
    bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:46a6 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 [Geforce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU] vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: nvidia v: 510.47.03 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm
    bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:24a0 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 compositor: gnome-shell driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa
    gpu: i915 display-ID: :1 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 4480x1440 s-dpi: 101 s-size: 1126x362mm (44.3x14.3")
    s-diag: 1183mm (46.6")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-0 pos: right res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 102
    size: 477x268mm (18.8x10.6") diag: 547mm (21.5")
  Monitor-2: eDP-1-1 pos: primary,left res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 171
    size: 381x214mm (15.0x8.4") diag: 437mm (17.2")
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2
    v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 510.47.03 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
    bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:51c8 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0000:01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.7-1-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: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 0000:00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:51f0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel
    port: 3000 bus-ID: 0000:2c:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp44s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-10:4
    chip-ID: 8087:0033 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller driver: vmd
    v: 0.6 port: N/A bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:467f rev: class-ID: 0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 684.29 GiB (71.7%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Micron model: 3400 MTFDKBA1T0TFH
    size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s
    lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: P7MA001 temp: 48.9 C scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 953.57 GiB size: 937.53 GiB (98.32%)
    used: 684.29 GiB (73.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
    label: N/A uuid: 97dd37d5-1395-4fe9-91a1-5c5335a75b8a
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
    label: NO_LABEL uuid: 0641-9146
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 1 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 20 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 3-3:2 info: ASUSTek N-KEY Device type: Keyboard
    driver: asus,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 0b05:19b6 class-ID: 0301
  Device-2: 3-6:3 info: Razer USA DeathAdder Elite type: Mouse,Keyboard
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 500mA chip-ID: 1532:005c class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: 3-10:4 info: Intel type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2
    rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0033 class-ID: e001
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 62.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 51 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 481 Uptime: 1h 3m wakeups: 2 Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl
  Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: 1422 pacman: 1405 lib: 462 flatpak: 8
  snap: 9 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.13

How can I force 240Hz or up the limit again?

Honestly, i would stick to 5.15 kernel … Might let us know if your issue is present or not when using it.

Welp… that did it. Thank you very much!

I may have spoken too soon… My game doesn’t feel like it’s going at 200+ fps, and enable v-sync limits the framerate to 60 (Running through wine)

You mentioned nothing about wine, was more about native system UI … well … Is the native UI running at proper frequency or not?
For wine gaming might want to check this then

I don’t believe so. There’s no marked difference between dragging a window on my second monitor (60Hz) and laptop screen

I’ll do the steps mentioned in the post you linked, though the game does run at higher fps, just doesn’t feel like I’m getting more frames pushed to the monitor

Well, the game issue was my fault, it is now definitely at a high refresh rate. Sorry for the confusion
My system GUI is still apparently running at 60fps though

You can always install glxosd and confirm the FPS. And it’s in the AUR:

$ pamac search glxosd
[...]
glxosd                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  3.2.2-1         AUR
An OSD for OpenGL applications running under the X Window System. This allows you to monitor your framerate and hardware temperature in games on Linux!

So can be installed using:

pamac build glxosd

Edit:

Also have a look here, maybe it helps: https://askubuntu.com/a/482758

Thanks for the tip! Was looking for a tool to do this but my Google-fu was lacking apparently
Both pamac and yay are failing to build glxosd, sadly. Is there another tool you know of to test framerate?

Regarding the answer you linked, xrandr does properly show my screen as being 240Hz now (and games work too)

Then you should be able to use the --rate argument for setting refresh rate. Or do you mean that it’s detected?

Run:

xranr --query

for more information. Post the results here if unsure.

Edit:

$ xrandr --help                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

usage: xrandr [options]
[...]
-r <rate> or --rate <rate> or --refresh <rate>

Yep 240Hz is already selected. Pasting the xrandr --query output:

Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 4480 x 1440, maximum 32767 x 32767
DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 connected 1920x1080+2560+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 477mm x 268mm
   1920x1080     60.00*+  59.94  
   1680x1050     59.95  
   1600x900      60.00  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1400x1050     59.98  
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1280x800      59.81  
   1280x720      60.00    59.94  
   1152x864      75.00  
   1024x768      75.03    60.00  
   800x600       75.00    60.32  
   720x480       59.94    59.94  
   640x480       75.00    59.94  
eDP-1-1 connected primary 2560x1440+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 381mm x 214mm
   2560x1440    240.00*+  60.00 +  59.99    59.99    59.96    59.95  
   1920x1440     85.00    75.00    60.00  
   1856x1392     75.00    60.01  
   1792x1344     75.00    60.01  
   2048x1152     59.99    59.98    59.90    59.91  
   1920x1200     59.88    59.95  
   1920x1080     60.01    59.97    59.96    59.93  
   1600x1200     85.00    75.00    70.00    65.00    60.00  
   1680x1050     59.95    59.88  
   1400x1050     74.76    59.98  
   1600x900      59.99    59.94    59.95    59.82  
   1280x1024     85.02    75.02    60.02  
   1400x900      59.96    59.88  
   1280x960      85.00    60.00  
   1440x810      60.00    59.97  
   1368x768      59.88    59.85  
   1280x800      59.99    59.97    59.81    59.91  
   1152x864      75.00  
   1280x720      60.00    59.99    59.86    59.74  
   1024x768      85.00    75.05    60.04    85.00    75.03    70.07    60.00  
   1024x768i     86.96  
   960x720       85.00    75.00    60.00  
   928x696       75.00    60.05  
   896x672       75.05    60.01  
   1024x576      59.95    59.96    59.90    59.82  
   960x600       59.93    60.00  
   832x624       74.55  
   960x540       59.96    59.99    59.63    59.82  
   800x600       85.00    75.00    70.00    65.00    60.00    85.14    72.19    75.00    60.32    56.25  
   840x525       60.01    59.88  
   864x486       59.92    59.57  
   700x525       74.76    59.98  
   800x450       59.95    59.82  
   640x512       85.02    75.02    60.02  
   700x450       59.96    59.88  
   640x480       85.09    60.00    85.01    72.81    75.00    59.94  
   720x405       59.51    58.99  
   720x400       85.04  
   684x384       59.88    59.85  
   640x400       59.88    59.98    85.08  
   576x432       75.00  
   640x360       59.86    59.83    59.84    59.32  
   640x350       85.08  
   512x384       85.00    75.03    70.07    60.00  
   512x384i      87.06  
   512x288       60.00    59.92  
   416x312       74.66  
   480x270       59.63    59.82  
   400x300       85.27    72.19    75.12    60.32    56.34  
   432x243       59.92    59.57  
   320x240       85.18    72.81    75.00    60.05  
   360x202       59.51    59.13  
   360x200       85.04  
   320x200       85.27  
   320x180       59.84    59.32  
   320x175       85.27  
DP-1-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
  1680x1050 (0x1c2) 146.250MHz -HSync +VSync
        h: width  1680 start 1784 end 1960 total 2240 skew    0 clock  65.29KHz
        v: height 1050 start 1053 end 1059 total 1089           clock  59.95Hz
  1280x1024 (0x1c6) 135.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width  1280 start 1296 end 1440 total 1688 skew    0 clock  79.98KHz
        v: height 1024 start 1025 end 1028 total 1066           clock  75.02Hz
  1280x1024 (0x1c7) 108.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width  1280 start 1328 end 1440 total 1688 skew    0 clock  63.98KHz
        v: height 1024 start 1025 end 1028 total 1066           clock  60.02Hz
  1280x800 (0x1c8) 83.500MHz -HSync +VSync
        h: width  1280 start 1352 end 1480 total 1680 skew    0 clock  49.70KHz
        v: height  800 start  803 end  809 total  831           clock  59.81Hz
  1152x864 (0x1cb) 108.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width  1152 start 1216 end 1344 total 1600 skew    0 clock  67.50KHz
        v: height  864 start  865 end  868 total  900           clock  75.00Hz
  1024x768 (0x1cc) 78.750MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width  1024 start 1040 end 1136 total 1312 skew    0 clock  60.02KHz
        v: height  768 start  769 end  772 total  800           clock  75.03Hz
  1024x768 (0x1cd) 65.000MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width  1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1344 skew    0 clock  48.36KHz
        v: height  768 start  771 end  777 total  806           clock  60.00Hz
  800x600 (0x1ce) 49.500MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width   800 start  816 end  896 total 1056 skew    0 clock  46.88KHz
        v: height  600 start  601 end  604 total  625           clock  75.00Hz
  800x600 (0x1cf) 40.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width   800 start  840 end  968 total 1056 skew    0 clock  37.88KHz
        v: height  600 start  601 end  605 total  628           clock  60.32Hz
  640x480 (0x1d2) 31.500MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width   640 start  656 end  720 total  840 skew    0 clock  37.50KHz
        v: height  480 start  481 end  484 total  500           clock  75.00Hz
  640x480 (0x1d3) 25.175MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width   640 start  656 end  752 total  800 skew    0 clock  31.47KHz
        v: height  480 start  490 end  492 total  525           clock  59.94Hz

Well, no offense meant, but then I think all’s good.

:man_shrugging:

Maybe I can’t see the difference between 60Hz and 240Hz lol. Would be weird but maybe the tearing is making it difficult to tell

AFAIK the human eye can’t.

But all looks good to me!

You mention tearing, have a look here: Various screen tearing fixes - Manjaro

Thanks for the link. I’m not using Xfce and the other article on that page is marked as outdated. Should I still follow the steps?
I’ve also read something about a kernel parameter in the ArchWiki, regarding tearing. Should I try that before?

Yes, before trying other solutions. If it doesn’t work, you can always undo it.

Perhaps, I can’t give you a more definite answer.

However, I can and will advise you to keep track of what you’re doing. By making pen and paper notes, if necessary. That way it’s easy to backtrack, or undo something if it makes it worse.

I have to be off now. Good luck and godspeed!

Thank you! Have a good rest of your day :smile:

PSSSSSST! Don’t tell anyone you saw me!


Have a look here, specifically the command to run at startup:

https://askubuntu.com/a/1185328

If it works, you can make a startup systemd unit.

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