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title="NEW - External monitor ("reverse PRIME", Output Sink) updates very slowly (1fps) when laptop screen is off"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99128#c1">Comment # 1</a>
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title="NEW - External monitor ("reverse PRIME", Output Sink) updates very slowly (1fps) when laptop screen is off"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99128">bug 99128</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:chris@chris-wilson.co.uk" title="Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>"> <span class="fn">Chris Wilson</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Peter Wu from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=99128#c0">comment #0</a>)
<span class="quote">> Other information:
> A similar problem existed in the modesetting driver, fixed in Xorg 1.19 with
> <a href="https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2016-August/050797.html">https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2016-August/050797.html</a>
> I think that a similar fix can be developed for sna_display.c
> (sna_covering_crtc).</span >
That is what sna_covering_crtc has been doing that for the last few years. The
problem is that you don't have any Intel CRTCs from which we can use as a
vblank source and so you suffer from the woeful present fallback, as we don't
seem to be able to offload the vblanks onto the slave outputs.</pre>
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