Three monitors support of Garuda

mvd · April 22, 2023, 7:25am

Hi there,
I've been trying a lot of diff distros and finally came to Garuda which became instant favourite!
Thanks to all who created it and support it!

I am having this multiple (3) monitor problem with Garuda.
Whenever I switch to the dock station my laptop with Garuda (which is conn. to other two monitors), all monitors take the not very high resolution of the laptop HW. Thus I cannot use the original high resolution capabilities of the other two monitors and the pictures and symbols are unnatural on those two.
I tried a lot of diff approaches to solve the problem incl. all kind of xrandr manual adjustments as described in diff video tutorials but finally i could not solve the problem.
I'd be very happy if Garuda team has a solution to fix this as I don't want to move to Fedora for which I know this problem is solved.
Thanks in advance and pls let me help you with this in case you need more constructive details.

God speed!

TilliDie · April 22, 2023, 7:34am

Welcome to the forum

Can you provide your

garuda-inxi

mvd · April 22, 2023, 8:08am

System:
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SGS · April 22, 2023, 8:27am

Many differences are not helpful, we need details and post the Garuda-Inxi with all monitors connected, please.
Did you use the system settings?

Unfortunately, I do not know if AMD has a settings app like Nvidia.

At least restart the PC, it’s KDE

mvd · April 22, 2023, 8:47am

Thank you she-user!
I am a male if this make any diff for you.

I'll come with more responses later on...

SGS · April 22, 2023, 8:50am

Sorry, copy and paste error from my translation program

filo · April 22, 2023, 11:37am

I’ve never used multi monitor, but I think you could work on the xorg conf with e g. monitor conf file to set appropriate DPI for each external monitor. See:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#Display_size_and_DPI
An interesting post here, including the solution of that topic:

mvd · April 22, 2023, 2:42pm

OK, thanks (KDE is good; with Garuda it feels much better than other ditros with the Dwarf).
Here is the inxi with 3 monitors connected.
I am gonna display the screenshot of the Displ. conf and the monitors below. On it you can see that the 34"curved is set properly with XRANDR to its max resolution but it still is displayed with the laptops (‘low’) resolution).
The settings of the 27" monitor max resolution disappeared with the time but they shouldn’t be relevant for the example. Unless someone request it…
Pls let me know if anything else I can present useful.
Thanks again

System:
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CPU:
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    alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x, snd_pci_acp5x, snd_pci_acp6x,
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Garuda (2.6.16-1):
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  Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager mkinitcpio
  Windows dual boot:       Yes
  Failed units:

filo · April 22, 2023, 2:52pm

There is something wrong here.
Same for monitor-2.
I’d try with the xorg conf as per Arch Wiki.

mvd · April 27, 2023, 11:22am

So far not success.

I remember that I used cvt and xrandr to put the resolution of the biggest display in it and that's why i see 3440x1440 for the curved one here: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf
When the system is started i see it as an option (as displayed above in scr) but choosing it does not help to use it.
I am wondering what else I can do...
Is it a problem of Garuda which was not installed with these two additional monitors on first place, and without easy way to auto reconfigure or not easy to manually reconfigure the monitors with proper resolutions after installation of the OS,
or is is a problem of the AMD drivers, etc?
Are there users that can report the same problem with 2 or 3 monitors connected to the system, and how they solved the problem?

meanruse · April 27, 2023, 12:03pm

I don't have the problem (also, I use Wayland with Sway), but I would bet on the physical size thing as pointed out by @filo.
It may be the case it needs fixing the EDID, but I have totally zero knowledge to share, just a search string: linux fix wrong edid from monitor - Whoogle Search -- This result looks promising.

In my case, edid-decode reports

  Basic Display Parameters & Features:
    Digital display
    Maximum image size: 70 cm x 39 cm

for the external HDMI monitor (actually, an old TV) which is correct.

mvd · April 27, 2023, 1:58pm

Do you mean the resolution size of the monitors are too big and not provisioned by Garuda team?
When I set the resolution to max i have message on the monitor conf box that:

"gaps betwen displays are not supported. make sure all displays are touching"

what practically this means?

meanruse · April 27, 2023, 2:11pm

Do you mean the resolution size of the monitors are too big and not provisioned by Garuda team?

No, I mean the detected physical size (size: 160x90mm) is too small, and I suspect it could be something with the EDID information returned by the monitor to the OS (of course, my theory may well be wrong).
If decode-edid returns the correct size, it means I’m wrong.

“gaps betwen displays are not supported. make sure all displays are touching”

just means that, in a multi-monitor configuration they should all be contiguous, where one monitor ends the next pixel is on the neighboring other monitor without space in between, like

+----+--------+
| M1 |   M2   |   # OK
+----+--------+

+----+  +--------+
| M1 |  |   M2   |   # NOT OK
+----+  +--------+

I don’t know if this is Xorg limitation, as I said I use Wayland, and I can leave a gap between my monitors without problem (it’s useful for CAD and games, to restrict the mouse on one screen, but I digressed).

edit: Reading again your last sentence (“When I set the resolution to max”), I also suspect the error message is imprecise, and likely the two overlap rather than have a gap between.
Let’s say I have the “OK” setup above, and now I increase M1 resolution, I’d also have to move M2 to the right.

mvd · May 3, 2023, 5:53am

thank you for the contemplation on the issue!
I set the resol. of Curved (right upper one) to the max and move the monitor 1 (left upper one) so they all are touching perfectly. Then i 'apply' and nothing changes in the montor virtual positions or the resolutions (all are back to 1920x1080)

mvd · May 5, 2023, 9:01am

So far, a partial success with a lot of manual play and a workaround.
The support of 3 monitors is not OK in Garuda linux as of now.

I tried diff ways to connect the monitors and the one where i connect 27" through HDMI, and 34" through docking station (usb type-c) worked partially.
34'' is set to its max resolution now (3440x1440), but 27'' has chosen a bigger (2560x1440) but not its max resolution (which i am not sure where it took it from). so 3840x2160 is not appearing at all in the display settings. Why?

the content of 10-monitor.conf is:
"
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DisplayPort-1"
Modeline "3440x1440_60.00" 419.50 3440 3696 4064 4688 1440 1443 1453 1493 -hsync +vsync
Option "PreferredMode" "3440x1440_60.00"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DisplayPort-2"
Modeline "3840x2160_60.00" 712.75 3840 4160 4576 5312 2160 2163 2168 2237 -hsync +vsync
Option "PreferredMode" "3840x2160_60.00"
EndSection
"

~/.profile:
"export AMD_VULKAN_ICD=RADV
export BROWSER=firedragon
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/micro
export GTK2_RC_FILES="$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0"
export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1
export MAIL=thunderbird
export TERM=xterm
export VISUAL=kate

xrandr --newmode "3440x1440_60.00" 419.50 3440 3696 4064 4688 1440 1443 1453 1493 -hsync +vsync

xrandr --addmode DisplayPort-1 "3440x1440_60.00"

xrandr --newmode "3840x2160_60.00" 712.75 3840 4160 4576 5312 2160 2163 2168 2237 -hsync +vsync

xrandr --addmode DisplayPort-2 "3840x2160_60.00"
"

Any further suggestions for workarounds, or improvements of the issue or this great OS will be appreaciated
Thank you!

PS:
xrandr ->

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 5360 x 2520, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP connected primary 1920x1080+872+1440 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x194mm
1920x1080 60.03*+
1680x1050 60.03
1280x1024 60.03
1440x900 60.03
1280x800 60.03
1280x720 60.03
1024x768 60.03
800x600 60.03
640x480 60.03
HDMI-A-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DisplayPort-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DisplayPort-1 connected 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 160mm x90mm
3440x1440_60.00 59.94 +
1920x1080 60.00*+ 50.00 59.94
1920x1200 59.95
1680x1050 59.88
1600x900 60.00
1280x1024 60.02
1440x900 59.90
1280x800 59.91
1280x720 60.00 50.00 59.94
1024x768 60.00
800x600 60.32
720x480 60.00 59.94
640x480 60.00 59.94
720x400 70.08
DisplayPort-2 connected 1920x1080+0+360 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 160mm x 90mm
3840x2160_60.00 59.98 +
1920x1080 60.00*+ 50.00 59.94
1920x1200 59.95
1680x1050 59.88
1600x900 60.00
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1440x900 59.90
1280x800 59.91
1280x720 60.00 50.00 59.94
1024x768 75.03 60.00
800x600 75.00 60.32
720x480 60.00 59.94
640x480 75.00 60.00 59.94
720x400 70.08

system · May 19, 2023, 9:01am

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