How to switch from Wayland to X11 in Garuda Mokka?

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@Andre

System install date: 2025-10-02

You’ve had this problem from the beginning, right?

@Andre

When I use only the built-in display, I get no lags, it’s super smooth.

The freezing and lags are happening only when I switch on external monitors.

Please restore the initial state (remove the nomodeset parameter, uninstall plasma-x11-session and kwin-x11, and use Wayland), then test whether the issue occurs when only one external monitor is connected (then with two and then with three monitors).

@Andre

Also the problem is that when I am using hybrid mode iGPU + dGPU, my iGPU from Intel is almost constantly at 100%, as if my dGPU is not even there. Of course it loads dGPU also, however the clocks speed are too slow (210 MHz and they never speed up to load videos, games, etc) on RTX 4080 Laptop, as far as I know.

Because only the Intel iGPU is active. For applications that are supposed to run exclusively on the Nvidia dGPU, use prime-run. But the 100% utilization of the Intel iGPU plus that:

@Andre

Performance drops to 40 fps in browsers or just on my desktop when I open simply a terminal on an external monitor.

@Andre

When I use dGPU only mode (which I can only use with 1 monitor), the issues disappear.

suggest that the actual cause lies with the Intel iGPU. The next time you encounter this issue, run this in the terminal:

garuda-diag

and post the generated link here (or better yet, upload a complete journal to “Garuda's PrivateBin).

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@Andre

Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-S UHD Graphics vendor: Razer USA driver: i915
v: kernel alternate: xe arch: Xe

At the moment, it’s just pure speculation, but you can take a look at this topic for more information:

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