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I’m considering building a new machine soon and was looking at the Intel Arc GPUs as a possibility. Anyone have experience using them in their system? I’m on Arch btw

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wasn't able to enable VRR on my monitor (with freesync). I'm using KDE Wayland on Debian Testing, just wondering if you knew a workaround or something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What kernel are you using? Debian tends to lag behind with kernel updates which makes it a bad choice when running new hardware. I switched from Debian to Arch when I got my A770 because at the time Debian's latest kernel even in sid didn't support Arc at all while it worked fine in Arch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm running 6.5.10, also with an A770. I could maybe try/compile 6.6 later, but 6.5 seems new enough I thought.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm, 6.5 should support VRR just fine yeah

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah no change with 6.6, I guess I'll probably open an issue somewhere when I have the time to figure out what's broken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just to make sure, you're using DisplayPort right? I don't think the Arc cards support VRR over HDMI. The HDMI port on the Arc is actually a built in DisplayPort to HDMI converter, and I don't think any converter chips support VRR modes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, it's definitely using DisplayPort!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Okay so for whatever reason, turning Freesync on and off a bunch of times from the OSD and then replugging works until the next reboot, so I've dumped the working EDID and I'm trying to figure out how to load it at boot (~~but I'm not having much luck~~).

For reference, the monitor is a Samsung LC24RG50.

Edit: Got the EDID loaded, KDE says it's supported, but VRRTest doesn't really seem to do anything.

Edit 2: Other games work fine.