Oh yeah that’s exactly my issue. How does this relate to the nvidia driver versus the nouveau driver? I’d rather try switching from nvidia to nouveau; everything I’ve read about the AUR comes with big “You must know what you’re doing!!” warnings and… I don’t think I know what I’m doing, ha.
I did some reading:
- How do I switch to Nouveau nVidia drivers?
- Configure Graphics Cards - Manjaro
- Hardware video acceleration - ArchWiki
I figured out that running LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nouveau obs in the terminal works! I tried switching my driver from nvidia to nouveau (without uninstalling the nvidia ones – I’m not sure how I would uninstall them. There’s a lot of packages in pamac and I don’t know which ones to uninstall, plus some packages (e.g. ffmpeg) supposedly depend on them)
edit: Ah, I found the place in the system settings GUI where I could uninstall the nvidia drivers; I did that and restarted but now my second monitor is slightly fuzzy in a way that gives me a headache to look at, which is the reason I chose the nvidia drivers in the first place. I guess LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nouveau obs is an okay workaround… this all feels very haphazard and unstable though, I wish there was a better way