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josep

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Can't run 144hz on second screen (laptop)

I can't run 144hz on my second monitor

I've digged around and on my nvida-settings I don't have the X Server Display option
picture of my nvidia-settings

Also, I'm connected tru an HDMI cable to an external monitor which can handle 165hz but since it's only HDMI it can only support 144hz

If you need any logs, I'm here

Last edited by josep (2024-10-03 17:50:47)

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Re: Can't run 144hz on second screen (laptop)

1. please replace the oversized image w/ a link
2. what second monitor? There's only one listed?
3. is this actually X11?

loginctl session-status

4. Please post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

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Re: Can't run 144hz on second screen (laptop)

[jose@arch ~]$ loginctl session-status
3 - jose (1000)
  Since: Thu 2024-10-03 12:41:16 -05; 29s ago
  State: active
 Leader: 1123 (gdm-session-wor)
   Seat: seat0; vc2
    TTY: tty2
 Remote: no
Service: gdm-password
   Type: x11
  Class: user
   Idle: no
   Unit: session-3.scope
         ├─1123 "gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm-password]"
         ├─1194 /usr/lib/gdm-x-session --run-script /usr/bin/gnome-session
         ├─1196 /usr/lib/Xorg vt2 -displayfd 3 -auth /run/user/1000/gdm/Xauthori
ty -nolisten tcp -background none -noreset -keeptty -novtswitch -verbose 3
         └─1215 /usr/lib/gnome-session-binary

Oct 03 12:41:33 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1196]: (II) 
event20 - SONiX USB DEVICE: is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
Oct 03 12:41:33 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1196]: (II) 
event20 - SONiX USB DEVICE: device is a keyboard
Oct 03 12:41:33 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1196]: (II) 
event20 - SONiX USB DEVICE: device removed
Oct 03 12:41:33 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1196]: (**) 
Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-3/1-3.1/1-3.1:1.0/000
3:05AC:0256.0006/input/input34/event20"
Oct 03 12:41:33 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1196]: (II) 
XINPUT: Adding extended input device "SONiX USB DEVICE" (type: KEYBOARD, id 24)
Oct 03 12:41:33 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1196]: (**) 
Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
Oct 03 12:41:33 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1196]: (**) 
Option "xkb_layout" "latam"
Oct 03 12:41:33 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1196]: (**) 
Option "xkb_options" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
Oct 03 12:41:33 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1196]: (II) 
event20 - SONiX USB DEVICE: is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
Oct 03 12:41:33 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1196]: (II) 
event20 - SONiX USB DEVICE: device is a keyboard

I guess it is X11

And here is the logs.

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Re: Can't run 144hz on second screen (laptop)

[  1663.687] (--) PCI:*(0@0:2:0) 8086:591b:1028:0798 rev 4, Mem @ 0xdd000000/16777216, 0xb0000000/268435456, I/O @ 0x0000f000/64, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
[  1663.687] (--) PCI: (1@0:0:0) 10de:1c8c:1028:0798 rev 161, Mem @ 0xde000000/16777216, 0xc0000000/268435456, 0xd0000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x0000e000/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/524288

It's a prime setup.

[  1665.645] (--) NOUVEAU(G0): Chipset: "NVIDIA NV137"

And you're running on nouveau, how is nvidia-settings intalled/running/doing anything itfp?
You've a pascal chip, so the nvidia driver should be no problem if installed (and blacklist nouveau):

pacman -Qs 'nvidia|kernel'

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Re: Can't run 144hz on second screen (laptop)

Sorry, I don't know how to check the "itfp" thing, and how do you blacklist nouveau?:

[jose@arch ~]$ pacman -Qs 'nvidia|kernel'
local/egl-gbm 1.1.2-1
    The GBM EGL external platform library
local/egl-wayland 4:1.1.16-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/fuse3 3.16.2-1
    Interface for userspace programs to export a filesystem to the Linux kernel
local/iptables 1:1.8.10-2
    Linux kernel packet control tool (using legacy interface)
local/kmod 33-3
    Linux kernel module management tools and library
local/lib32-libdrm 2.4.123-1
    Userspace interface to kernel DRM services (32-bit)
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 560.35.03-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libdrm 2.4.123-1
    Userspace interface to kernel DRM services
local/libnetfilter_conntrack 1.0.9-2
    Library providing an API to the in-kernel connection tracking state table
local/libnfnetlink 1.0.2-2
    Low-level library for netfilter related kernel/userspace communication
local/libsysprof-capture 47.0-1
    Kernel based performance profiler - capture library
local/libvdpau 1.5-3
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 560.35.03-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/linux 6.11.1.arch1-1
    The Linux kernel and modules
local/linux-api-headers 6.10-1
    Kernel headers sanitized for use in userspace
local/mtdev 1.1.7-1
    A stand-alone library which transforms all variants of kernel MT events to the slotted type B protocol
local/nvidia 560.35.03-10
    NVIDIA drivers for linux
local/nvidia-prime 1.0-5
    NVIDIA Prime Render Offload configuration and utilities
local/nvidia-settings 560.35.03-1
    Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-utils 560.35.03-5
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.17-3 (xorg-drivers)
    Open Source 3D acceleration driver for nVidia cards

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Re: Can't run 144hz on second screen (laptop)

nvidia-utils blacklists nouveau, you have that installed, so …

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … -/issues/9
Please post your complete system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

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Re: Can't run 144hz on second screen (laptop)

system journal

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Re: Can't run 144hz on second screen (laptop)

Oct 03 12:40:52 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[614]: (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families :
Oct 03 12:40:54 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[614]: (II) UnloadModule: "nouveau"

Oct 03 12:40:54 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[614]: (II) NVIDIA(G0): NVIDIA GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (GP107-A) at PCI:1:0:0

You're now(?) actually loading the nvidia driver.

Oct 03 13:36:55 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1196]: (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Samsung LS27AG55x (DFP-0): connected
Oct 03 13:36:55 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1196]: (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Samsung LS27AG55x (DFP-0): Internal TMDS
Oct 03 13:36:55 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1196]: (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Samsung LS27AG55x (DFP-0): 600.0 MHz maximum pixel clock

and there's an output connected.
Does the nvidia-settings dialog still look like this? What if you run "prime-run nvidia-settings"?
Regardless, what's the output of

xrandr -q

?

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Re: Can't run 144hz on second screen (laptop)

Does the nvidia-settings dialog still look like this? What if you run "prime-run nvidia-settings"?

Yes

output of xrandr -q:

[jose@arch ~]$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2560 x 1440, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP-1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   1920x1080     60.02 +  60.01    59.97    59.96    59.93    48.03  
   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 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1-0 connected primary 2560x1440+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 597mm x 336mm
   2560x1440    144.00*+ 120.00    59.95  
   1920x1080    143.98   119.88    60.00    59.94    50.00  
   1680x1050     59.95  
   1600x900      60.00  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1280x800      59.81  
   1280x720      60.00    59.94  
   1152x864      75.00  
   1024x768      75.03    70.07    60.00  
   800x600       75.00    72.19    60.32    56.25  
   640x480       75.00    72.81    59.94  
  1680x1050 (0x4a) 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 (0x51) 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 (0x5b) 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 (0x62) 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 (0x71) 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
  800x600 (0x72) 36.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width   800 start  824 end  896 total 1024 skew    0 clock  35.16KHz
        v: height  600 start  601 end  603 total  625           clock  56.25Hz
  640x480 (0x7e) 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

seth

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Re: Can't run 144hz on second screen (laptop)

The eDP is disabled, the HDMI output runs at 144Hz via reverse prime, nvidia-settings will "fail" because you're not actually running on the nvidia chip.
Is your problem the 1fps situation, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME#Reverse_PRIME ?
I'd assume https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME# … ronization would have fixed that, otherwise people have worked around this by disabling DRI3

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josep

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Re: Can't run 144hz on second screen (laptop)

I don't think it's a 1fps situation. But when I did this changes to my xorg.conf (which didn't exist)

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier "layout"
        Screen 0 "intel"
        Inactive "nvidia"
        Option "AllowNVIDIAGPUScreens"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "nvidia"
        Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "nvidia"
        Device "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "intel"
        Driver "modesetting"
        BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "intel"
        Device "intel"
EndSection

And follow the follow the steps on this and as soon as I restarted my laptop, my external screen when crazy, didn't show anything but some pixels on the screen, it was on but like broken? looked like broken

Also, I don't know how to disable DRI3:
Here's what I've tried:

[jose@arch ~]$ grep DRI3 ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log
[  1665.867] (II) Initializing extension DRI3

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Re: Can't run 144hz on second screen (laptop)

But when I did this changes to my xorg.conf

Don't. Remove that.

xrandr shows the output is running at 144Hz and if it's not the 1fps situation, we need to understand what brings you to the (false) assumption that

I can't run 144hz on my second monitor

My next best guess would be that you're running a compositor that updates only at a limited FPS (60 or 48) which might face you 30fps renderings if the source also tries to sync.

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