I currently have a dual-monitor HDMI + DVI setup in which the DVI monitor immediately sleeps when Manjaro is booted. This seems to be because of an adapter issue due to the monitor being VGA routed into a VGA-DVI adapter (discussed here). However, adding “amdgpu.dc=0” into my grub causes the VGA monitor to work, which in turn then causes my HDMI monitor to be the one having a blank screen.
Why would enabling the amdgpu dc cause one monitor to work, but disabling causes the other monitor to then not work? Is there a workaround to the amdgpu setting in which I can have it work for both monitors?
xinxi:
System:
Kernel: 5.9.1-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.9-x86_64
root=UUID=9f3b4142-4868-426f-b0bf-483cdf720a67 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=63140814-0368-43af-bcf7-3f6f7d24d6a9
udev.log_priority=3 amdgpu.dc=1
Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.20 info: xfce4-panel wm: bspwm 0.9.10
dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: H97 Pro4 serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: P1.90 date: 07/27/2015
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-4790K bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Haswell family: 6 model-id: 3C (60) stepping: 3 microcode: 28
L2 cache: 8192 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 63887
Speed: 1147 MHz min/max: 800/4400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 976 2: 973
3: 926 4: 897 5: 838 6: 898 7: 813 8: 898
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Tonga PRO [Radeon R9 285/380] vendor: XFX Pine driver: amdgpu
v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:6939
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: compton driver: amdgpu,ati
unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa display ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.0x11.3")
s-diag: 583mm (23")
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 55
size: 880x490mm (34.6x19.3") diag: 1007mm (39.7")
Monitor-2: DVI-D-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 112
size: 435x239mm (17.1x9.4") diag: 496mm (19.5")
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon R9 380 Series (TONGA DRM 3.39.0 5.9.1-1-MANJARO
LLVM 10.0.1)
v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.8 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASRock
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:8ca0
Device-2: AMD Tonga HDMI Audio [Radeon R9 285/380] vendor: XFX Pine
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 1002:aad8
Device-3: Samson C01U condenser microphone type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio
bus ID: 2-4:4 chip ID: 17a0:0001
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.1-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I218-V vendor: ASRock driver: e1000e v: kernel
port: f040 bus ID: 00:19.0 chip ID: 8086:15a1
IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless 8260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: e000
bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 8086:24f3
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.02 TiB used: 14.47 GiB (1.4%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-00BN5A0
size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 1A01 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Crucial model: CT120BX100SSD1 size: 111.79 GiB
block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
rev: MU02 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: 94.36 GiB size: 92.38 GiB (97.90%) used: 14.47 GiB (15.7%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 17.13 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/sdb3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 50 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 1774
Info:
Processes: 238 Uptime: 6m Memory: 15.57 GiB used: 1.55 GiB (10.0%)
Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 1092 lib: 315
flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.1.05