Inconsistency in hyprland Multi-GPU docs

[admiral0]

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Regression?

No

System Info and Version

irrelevant - not a software bug - documentation bug

Description

On the Multi-GPU page there is a contradiction between first paragraph and second:

First instance:

Do not use the card1 symlink indicated here. It is dynamically assigned at boot and is subject to frequent change, making it unsuitable as a marker for GPU selection.

Second instance:

Here, we tell Hyprland to set priorities. If card0 isn’t available for whatever reason, use card1.

There is an advice to not use card* symlinks, but there is no mention that symlinks are not supported by AQ - possibly a miss during the documentation update.

How to reproduce

• Set symlinks to by-path
• Struggle
• Find https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/6956

Crash reports, logs, images, videos

I would recommend adding a section suggesting a script to generate AQ_DRM_DEVICES env var before the start.

Something like:

#!/bin/bash

G_INTEGRATED="/dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000:00:02.0-card"
G_DISCRETE="/dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000:01:00.0-card"

export AQ_DRM_DEVICES="$(readlink -f $G_INTEGRATED):$(readlink -f $G_DISCRETE)"

exec Hyprland "$@"

[izmyname]

Symlinks should work by now, btw.

https://github.com/hyprwm/aquamarine/pull/34

[admiral0]

There is another bug then preventing those paths to be used. Probably https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprutils/blob/3f5293432b6dc6a99f26aca2eba3876d2660665c/src/string/VarList.cpp#L16

It seems there's no way to escape a : in the path - which is part of PCI stable paths, so probably that should be mentioned instead

[admiral0]

Fixing that is probably non backwards compatible unless hyprland introduces a new env variable.

[vaxerski]

wrong repo dude