Hello, I cant seem to find any upto date info on this topic and all the old threads seem to suggest that these features do not work well on linux.
I am looking to get a 144hz monitor that is at least 2k in resolution. I have an Nvidia graphics card and KDE Plasma. I want to run two monitors and the 2nd monitors is 60hz and 1080p. Would this cause issues? Is there anything I need to consider when looking for a monitor?
No. I run 3x 1440p 144Hz monitors with KDE Plasma on an NVIDIA 1060 GTX, no issues at all.
Let me tell you.
I’m running a GTX 1050ti and I’m facing black screen and constant crashes in KDE Plasma when using Wayland.
X11 is working fine.
It might be a driver issue with nVidia on Wayland though.
Thanks everyone for the replies. I now feel confident in buying a new monitor. 😌
My laptop has a 2560x1440, 165Hz monitor built in. I am using opensuse tumbleweed with plasma. When I attach a 1920x1080, 60Hz external monitor through my kwm switch, I have no issues. It has an Nvidia GPU, but I believe plasma is running on the integrated GPU. I don’t know if I have tried gaming or anything that uses the Nvidia GPU while using the external monitor. I mainly use the second monitor for coding.
On my PC at home I’m running KDE Plasma on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with two monitors: 1440p 240 Hz, 4k 60 Hz. Both are connected via displayport to an RTX2080. It works perfectly fine for me.
A while back, I used Linux Mint on the same system and it was a headache, where it would sometimes boot to a blank screen and I would have to restart a random number of times before it would work. I never did figure out the underlying cause, it just went away when I changed distros for other reasons…
Are you using wayland? As far as I’m aware X11 can’t handle different refresh rates for different monitors so it defaults to the lower one.
Chiming in to say #Wayland is what resolved this issue for me. I had to switch from Linux Mint Cinnamon to #EndeavourOS + #GNOME and I’m much happier with my setup now.
What’s your GPU?
