** Description changed:

  [ Impact ]
  
  Fullscreen direct scanout is not used if you enable the hidden
  experimental VRR feature in Mutter 46.
  
  [ Test Plan ]
  
  0. Find a monitor that is VRR capable.
  1. Set MUTTER_DEBUG=kms in /etc/environment
  2. Enable VRR (TODO: need to relearn all the steps required)
  3. Reboot.
  4. Log into a Wayland session.
  5. Open Google Chrome, start an animation like https://www.vsynctester.com/ 
and make it full screen (F11).
  6. journalctl -f /usr/bin/gnome-shell | grep Post
  7. Verify the "Post" messages you see mention direct scan out and not 
"composite".
  
  [ Where problems could occur ]
  
  Since the fix affects the runtime decision of whether to allow triple
  buffering or stay double buffering, the main risk is that triple
  buffering wouldn't be used in some situation where we would rather have
  it to maintain a smoother frame rate.
  
  [ Other Info ]
  
  First reported upstream in:
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1441#note_2062222
  
- We DO NOT recommend enabling the VRR feature anyway because it is still buggy:
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/3419
+ We DO NOT recommend enabling the VRR feature anyway because it is still
+ buggy (bug 2066080)

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  Fullscreen direct scanout is not used if you enable the hidden
  experimental VRR feature in Mutter 46

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