Hello! I’m new to endeavouros and I’m having trouble configuring my monitors correctly. I’m using KDE Plasma or whatever and I’m noticing one monitor is clearly more blurry and the other is far sharp and normal. I’m not sure whats causing this issue to occurr and wondering if anyone can help? If needed, I can tell what monitor or specs etc I’m using
Might not hurt to post your hardware info. Post the url
inxi -Faz | eos-sendlog
I see the hardware output but it doesn’t show much about the monitors. This is a desktop and are both monitors hooked directly to the gpu card? One is HDMI and other is Display Port? Both running HD at 60Hz? On KDE do you have it on mirroring the output to both monitors?
yes, both is running through the gpu, on hdmi and other is DP. the one with display port is causing the fuzziness issue, and both monitors should be in 240hz, not 60, & no, it’s not mirroring
Have you tried resetting the monitor that’s blurry to factory defaults? I don’t know the reason why it would be blurry. Do both monitors have HDMI and Display port inputs? Maybe if so switch the cabling around and try also if setting to factory defaults doesn’t help. I see they have both same specs.
Most likely cause is the DisplayPort cable, despite your monitors being DP 1.2 and the standards for DP 1.2 supports 1080p @ 240Hz, the majority of DP 1.2 cables only support 1080p @ 144Hz. I would double check your cable specs and you may need a DP 1.4 cable that supports 1080p @ 240Hz. Try dropping the refresh rate of the DP display to 120Hz and if it is fine then it is most likely the cable.
If that is not the case and what rick suggests doesn’t work, run the following to get a list of the monitor modes and what they are set to and post the results:
xrandr -q
It could also be worth disabling compositing to see if that is where the issue is using: shift + alt + f12
I tried both solutions and nothing seemed to work, lowering the refresh rate didnt work, however when i changed my monitors resolution to 1680 x 1050 it seems to look perfectly normal.
I also think Wayland may not support 240Hz well. But that’s just an assumption. But i do agree with you DP 1.4 spec is much better and cables do make a difference. Some cables are just not up to spec.
I’ll try to get a better dp cable and see if that works. Besides that, are there any other solutions?
ok nvm when i first start up my desktop on the bottom theres this thing that says like “desktop session” i just changed it to x11 and it looks perfectly normal…weird lol