Hi Linux_Gaming.

Apologies for the stupid post yesterday concerning an Amazon RX 7900 XTX price. This sub saved me a lot of grief and several hundred bucks.

I'm going to go sit in the corner and eat crow. Then go buy an 7900xt to end the never ending pain of nvidia.

(Disclosure: I am using X11, running Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon on Linux 6.8.0-47-generic with an AMD card, with an ultrawide for my primary monitor and a vertical-oriented 1080p as my secondary monitor. YMMV)

Try this. https://blog.guntram.de/?p=172

I encountered this problem while playing Minecraft 1.12.2 in Prism Launcher. Loading up the game changed nothing, but when I quit, my secondary monitor flashed (representing a change in display settings) and although it still showed my background, it stopped being usable -- sending all applications sent to my primary monitor.

Fixing this when this happens is simple -- just going into Display Settings, adjust the resolution for the secondary monitor to the correct one and re-activate it, save, then cancel when it asks if you want to keep the updated settings. This reliably put my monitors back the way they were, except in one case that I haven't been able to recreate.

However, having to do all this every time I quit a particular game was not something I was looking forward to. Especially because this is Linux! There must be a solution.

My investigations turned up this blogpost. The problem the user described is not the exact same as mine, but through testing I discovered the root cause was the same.

Older versions of Minecraft* apparently make an xrandr call before launching and after quitting -- the former to query for current settings, and the latter to restore those settings. This second call is where everything is breaking -- I am not familiar with the functionality of xrandr or if it is even the most correct way to be doing this, so I cannot comment on reasoning, but in my case the call is effectively disabling my secondary monitor.

I did more or less what the blog post suggested, except I put an xrandr script into my own bin, since that was the first location listed in my PATH variable.

*I don't know the cut off -- I only know that 1.12.2 has this problem and the most current version at time of writing does not.

1. Checked my PATH variable and confirmed my personal bin was first.
2. Created a script called xrandr in my bin mirroring the content of the blog post, minus the case section.
3. Launched and quit Minecraft, fixing the display settings as before.
4. Reviewed the /tmp/xrandr.calls file generated by my script and noted the exact arguments passed by Minecraft when quitting, shown below (split across multiple lines for readability).
   • --output HDMI-A-0 --mode 2560x1080 --rate 59
     --pos 0x840 --output DisplayPort-0
     --mode 1920x1080 --rate 60 --pos 2560x0
5. Added in the case section from the blog post to my xrandr script, replacing the *3840* with the full arguments above.

And done! With this, quitting Minecraft no longer messes up my display settings. I imagine other games that would break them in the same way will be defused as well.

NB: I expect that if I ever change my display settings intentionally, that I will need to re-address this in my script.

If you made it this far, thank you for reading along! I hope that this is able to help someone experiencing this same problem in the future.

https://pastebin.com/UCtZeyET
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Hi!

I've just bought a decent MSI gaming laptop and really don't know what to do next.

I thought about doing a Dual-boot with W11 and Linux Mint or Fedora.

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1) Is Mint good for gaming? I mostly do strategy games and some RTS.

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2) When should I partition my disk, and when do I boot Linux?

Can I partition and boot Linux even days after setting up W11? Or should I do everything right at the get-go, upon starting my new PC for the first time?

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3) I've read here and there that doing a virtual partition of a single SSD can lead to troubles later on, especially when W11 updates. What's the risk? That some random day my data gets corrupted and I lose all progress since the last back-up?

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4) Since I only have 1 SSD slot, should I then instead boot Linux on some external drive? (let's say, a 64Gb USB stick which should be enough for basic activities).

Will it mean that I'll have to load W11 first everytime I want to access Linux on my external drive? And will I be able to personalise my Linux, or will it stay in its 'factory' version?

Cheers!

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How can I fix it? Please let me know if more info is needed. Thanks

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At the moment I'm running arch linux and has resorted to undervolting the card but it still crashes, even under minimal loads.

I can't stand using this card any more, so I'm going to upgrade.

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