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Mohs9n

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From: Egypt

Registered: 2021-12-26

Posts: 11

laptop External monitor only works when optimus-manager is enabled

I want to try gnome Wayland but gdm does not show gnome Wayland(Or any other Wayland window manager) when optimus-manager is enabled so i disabled it but then the external monitor does not work anymore.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 76,244

Re: laptop External monitor only works when optimus-manager is enabled

Yes.

Is there also a question?

This has nothing to do w/ "optimus-manager" but running on the nvidia chip requires https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GDM#Wa … DIA_driver

Reverse prime on wayland seems to be clunky, still:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2166
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2295
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … n_wayland/

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