Multiscreen laptop and HDMI

leydar · 10-22-2020, 03:46 AM

Hi,

I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS with Gnome 3.36.3 on a Novatech laptop with Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) onboard and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070.

A couple of days ago it crashed back to the graphical login screen after I logged in. I switched to a virtual terminal to try and figure out what was going on. I installed nvidia-driver-450 and rebooted. I alternated between installing the drivers in Gnome and from the CLI with apt-get. I purged nvidia* drivers and reinstalled and rebooted.

I'm now at a point where I can use prime-select to set the system to either intel or nvidia. If I select nvidia it will display correctly on an external monitor but not on the built in monitor. The external one only appears in settings/display. When I select intel and reboot it will display exclusively on the built in laptop screen and not the external monitor. It's also limited to 960*540 resolution. I'm thinking reinstalling the Intel drivers might help but I'd still have a configuration issue. I can't hotkey between screens and only the currently selected one is available via the settings GUI.

This configuration previously displayed on both internal and external screens without issue. I used to see both displays available in settings where now I only see whichever is set by prime-select.

nvidia-smi

Code:

Tue Oct 20 21:20:38 2020       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 450.80.02    Driver Version: 450.80.02    CUDA Version: 11.0     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GTX 1070    Off  | 00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| N/A   45C    P2    31W /  N/A |    250MiB /  8119MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      1203      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                 35MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      2196      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                 91MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      2701      G   /usr/bin/gnome-shell               70MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      7702      G   ...AAAAAAAAA= --shared-files       42MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

xrandr

Code:

Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
HDMI-0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 520mm x 290mm
   1920x1080     60.00*+  59.94  
   1680x1050     59.95  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1280x960      60.00  
   1280x720      60.00    59.94  
   1024x768      75.03    70.07    60.00  
   800x600       75.00    72.19    60.32    56.25  
   720x480       59.94    59.94  
   640x480       75.00    72.81    59.94  
DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Code:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 450.80.02


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

computersavvy · 10-22-2020, 10:17 PM

Did you also purge and reinstall the xorg*nvidia* packages that support the nvidia card? It is possible that a mismatch between the nvidia packages and the related xorg packages may be contributing to your issues. All mine show the 455.26 driver level.

Shadow_7 · 10-24-2020, 09:00 AM

One of those issues more easily solved with a fresh install, than trying to figure out what happened. AKA m$ methodology. Otherwise it sounds like one of those bumblebee, optimus, primus, thing a bobs / witchcraft.

Tonus · 10-24-2020, 04:07 PM

What about checking that with xrandr

Code:

xrandr --display eDP1 --auto --above HDMI0

Can't remember if it is --display or --output and can't check for now, try both, with tab completion very efficient, even to find display.

leydar · 10-29-2020, 07:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tonus

What about checking that with xrandr

Code:

xrandr --display eDP1 --auto --above HDMI0

Can't remember if it is --display or --output and can't check for now, try both, with tab completion very efficient, even to find display.

It's --output, but it returns

Code:

warning: output eDP1 not found; ignoring

I think the display is disabled somewhere in the configuration.

Code:

xrandr -d :0
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyCan't open display :0

My monitor.xml:

Code:

<monitors version="2">
  <configuration>
    <logicalmonitor>
      <x>1920</x>
      <y>0</y>
      <scale>1</scale>
      <primary>yes</primary>
      <monitor>
        <monitorspec>
          <connector>eDP-1-1</connector>
          <vendor>LGD</vendor>
          <product>0x046f</product>
          <serial>0x00000000</serial>
        </monitorspec>
        <mode>
          <width>1920</width>
          <height>1080</height>
          <rate>60.020423889160156</rate>
        </mode>
      </monitor>
    </logicalmonitor>
    <logicalmonitor>
      <x>0</x>
      <y>0</y>
      <scale>1</scale>
      <monitor>
        <monitorspec>
          <connector>HDMI-0</connector>
          <vendor>AOC</vendor>
          <product>2450W</product>
          <serial>CVEB8HA002522</serial>
        </monitorspec>
        <mode>
          <width>1920</width>
          <height>1080</height>
          <rate>60</rate>
        </mode>
      </monitor>
    </logicalmonitor>
  </configuration>
  <configuration>
    <logicalmonitor>
      <x>0</x>
      <y>0</y>
      <scale>1</scale>
      <primary>yes</primary>
      <monitor>
        <monitorspec>
          <connector>eDP-1</connector>
          <vendor>LGD</vendor>
          <product>0x046f</product>
          <serial>0x00000000</serial>
        </monitorspec>
        <mode>
          <width>1920</width>
          <height>1080</height>
          <rate>47.990375518798828</rate>
        </mode>
      </monitor>
    </logicalmonitor>
  </configuration>
  <configuration>
    <logicalmonitor>
      <x>0</x>
      <y>0</y>
      <scale>1</scale>
      <monitor>
        <monitorspec>
          <connector>eDP-1-1</connector>
          <vendor>LGD</vendor>
          <product>0x046f</product>
          <serial>0x00000000</serial>
        </monitorspec>
        <mode>
          <width>1920</width>
          <height>1080</height>
          <rate>60.020423889160156</rate>
        </mode>
      </monitor>
    </logicalmonitor>
    <logicalmonitor>
      <x>1920</x>
      <y>0</y>
      <scale>1</scale>
      <primary>yes</primary>
      <monitor>
        <monitorspec>
          <connector>HDMI-0</connector>
          <vendor>HSD</vendor>
          <product>HQ272PPB</product>
          <serial>1234567890123</serial>
        </monitorspec>
        <mode>
          <width>1920</width>
          <height>1080</height>
          <rate>60</rate>
        </mode>
      </monitor>
    </logicalmonitor>
  </configuration>
  <configuration>
    <logicalmonitor>
      <x>1680</x>
      <y>0</y>
      <scale>1</scale>
      <primary>yes</primary>
      <monitor>
        <monitorspec>
          <connector>eDP-1-1</connector>
          <vendor>LGD</vendor>
          <product>0x046f</product>
          <serial>0x00000000</serial>
        </monitorspec>
        <mode>
          <width>1920</width>
          <height>1080</height>
          <rate>60.020423889160156</rate>
        </mode>
      </monitor>
    </logicalmonitor>
    <logicalmonitor>
      <x>0</x>
      <y>0</y>
      <scale>1</scale>
      <monitor>
        <monitorspec>
          <connector>HDMI-0</connector>
          <vendor>DEL</vendor>
          <product>DELL E2209W</product>
          <serial>W632F8B30A0I</serial>
        </monitorspec>
        <mode>
          <width>1680</width>
          <height>1050</height>
          <rate>59.954250335693359</rate>
        </mode>
      </monitor>
    </logicalmonitor>
  </configuration>
</monitors>