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

  • SteveTech@programming.dev
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    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?

    • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • SteveTech@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        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.

          • SteveTech@programming.dev
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 year ago

            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.

            • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              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.

                • SteveTech@programming.dev
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  edit-2
                  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.

      • hellvolution@lemmygrad.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Do you know you can add testing, sid, experimental repositories, right? Sid & experimental have super new kernels/versions…