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.devEnglish
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    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
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      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.devEnglish
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        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.devEnglish
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            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
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              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.devEnglish
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                  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
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        1 year ago

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