Hi everyone, I’ve neen having this issue when running KDE wayland with multiple screen on my Thinkpad W530. I’m using the nouveau driver.

The primary monitor is fine, but the secondary one is glitching.

This is tested on Gentoo as well as Debian. I know it’s not hardware issue because it runs fine on X11.

Anyone have any idea about this issue?

  • Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    It’s a driver bug, it doesn’t reject buffers that the GPU can’t actually handle correctly.

    We’ve switched to a different way of doing multi-gpu in Plasma 6 that hits at least fewer such bugs.

  • Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    Could be an NVIDIA issue where the fact the external display is connected to the dGPU is causing issues. Nouveau optimus support for quattro could also be leading to the issue.

  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    It’s a common wayland problem. Try editing xf86config to force the scanrate to something your monitor supports rather than relying on dpms ddc/ci auto config

    • timkenhan@sopuli.xyzOP
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      10 months ago

      they are not… but they are on different resolution. the primary is on 1080p while the secondary is on HD+

  • Krafty Kactus@sopuli.xyz
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    10 months ago

    I have had the exact same issue and I’ve been looking for a solution. If you really need the second monitor then you can just switch to the x11 session as a temporary fix but I have no idea what actually causes it.