Screen Tearing and Unable to display to an External Monitor

Hello all, I recently changed my school laptop over from Windows to Manjaro since now that I’ve graduated I don’t have to worry about compatibility of important software for school work. So I’m still relatively new to linux as a whole. However, I tried to plug into an external monitor for a watch party, and the video was screen tearing awfully. I’ve noticed a slight amount on youtube videos, and playing games. However, it was nothing this bad before. It now is refusing to connect regardless of the monitor or hdmi cable I am using. The external display doesn’t show up during xrandr. The output of inxi is listed below let me know if you need anything else.

System:
  Kernel: 6.12.25-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.4 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
    Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15-ec1xxx v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 87B1 v: 31.25 serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: 1S8F3UA#ABA UEFI: AMI v: F.27 date: 03/17/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 41.4 Wh (96.5%) condition: 42.9/42.9 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 12.9 min: 11.6 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary serial: N/A
    status: charging
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
    type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 rev: 1 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1743 min/max: 1400/3000 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1743
    2: 1743 3: 1743 4: 1743 5: 1743 6: 1743 7: 1743 8: 1743 9: 1743 10: 1743
    11: 1743 12: 1743 bogomips: 71899
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm

Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q]
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nvidia v: 570.144 arch: Turing pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: none empty: HDMI-A-1
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f99
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir [Radeon Vega Series /
    Radeon Mobile Series] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel
    arch: GCN-5 pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: none
    bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1636 temp: 43.0 C
  Device-3: Quanta HP TrueVision HD Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-3:2 chip-ID: 0408:5365
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,nvidia
    unloaded: modesetting,nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa dri: radeonsi
    gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP model: AU Optronics 0x61ed res: 1920x1080
    hz: 60 dpi: 142 diag: 395mm (15.5")
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: nouveau
    device: 2 drv: radeonsi device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless:
    drv: nvidia x11: drv: radeonsi inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.0.4-arch1.1
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi
    renoir ACO DRM 3.61 6.12.25-1-MANJARO) device-ID: 1002:1636
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
    driver: nvidia device-ID: 10de:1f99 device: 1 type: integrated-gpu
    driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:1636
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
    wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10fa
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: N/A pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 05:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2
  Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: 05:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.25-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8822ce v: N/A pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c822
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek 802.11ac WLAN Adapter driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
    rev: 1.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4:2 chip-ID: 0bda:b00c
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.36 TiB used: 316.91 GiB (22.7%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Crucial model: CT500P3PSSD8 size: 465.76 GiB
    speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 34.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM048-2E7172 size: 931.51 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 457.09 GiB used: 316.91 GiB (69.3%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 97.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 62.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
  Memory: total: 24 GiB note: est. available: 22.84 GiB used: 7.34 GiB (32.1%)
  Processes: 358 Power: uptime: 4h 4m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 257
    default: graphical
  Packages: 1387 pm: pacman pkgs: 1381 pm: flatpak pkgs: 6 Compilers:
    gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.38

Have you tried using Wayland?

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I didn’t even realize this was a thing. Couple google searches showed that it was already installed and I just had to switch to it. It seems to have fixed it thank you!

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Your package manager could have told you that too. :wink:

Wayland is installed by default in the Plasma and GNOME editions of Manjaro — I’m not sure about the Xfce edition — and is the preferred display server of the KDE and GNOME developers. However, Manjaro still defaults to X11 on fresh installations because of the potential compatibility issues for Nvidia owners who use the proprietary drivers.

Just as an FYI. :wink:

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I wasn’t sure exactly how to check it so I googled that lol, but I’ll probably switch back to opensource drivers if that’s the case. Since I only switched to proprietary to try to fix this issue. Thank you for being so helpful!

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