Hello,
I am a novice linux user and just started using Manjaro with Gnome DE on my dekstop PC for coding purposes, now I am trying to do a multimonitor setup. I have an AMD APU Ryzen 5 5600G and DGPU Nvidia 1660 Super. My current gpu driver is video-hybrid-amd-nvidia-prime. My primary monitor is connected to my APU which works but since I am out of HDMI ports I am unable to use the Secondary monitor on my APU and tried to connect it on the HDMI port of my Nvidia DGPU but it doesn’t work. I have read somewhere that it is because of nvidia proprietary drivers unable to be used as output sink. I have also read that I might be able to do a reverse-prime setup making my nvidia gpu as main output but I don’t know how to do that as I am really not familiar with xorg configuration stuff.
I tried using the open source drivers video-linux since I am not going to play games on linux which works for multi-monitor setup but when I plugged the monitor to my DGPU the screen is glitching so I decided to go back to using hybrid drivers.
I hope someone can help me, I will be willing to learn how to do configuration.
Below is my inxi -Gazy
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER] driver: nvidia v: 530.41.03
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 530.xx+
status: current (as of 2023-03) arch: Turing code: TUxxx
process: TSMC 12nm FF built: 2018-22 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:21c4
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: AMD Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series]
vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-5 code: Vega
process: GF 14nm built: 2017-20 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s ports: active: HDMI-A-1
empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1638 class-ID: 0300
temp: 41.0 C
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.1.1
compositor: gnome-shell v: 43.4 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,nvidia
unloaded: modesetting,nouveau,radeon alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa dri: radeonsi
gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :1 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1440x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 381x238mm (15.00x9.37")
s-diag: 449mm (17.69")
Monitor-1: HDMI-1-0 size-res: N/A modes: N/A
Monitor-2: HDMI-A-0 pos: primary res: 1440x900 hz: 75 dpi: 90
size: 408x255mm (16.06x10.04") diag: 481mm (18.94") modes: N/A
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.0.2 renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (renoir LLVM
15.0.7 DRM 3.49 6.1.25-1-MANJARO) direct-render: Yes
My xrandr output:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 900, maximum 16384 x 16384
HDMI-A-0 connected primary 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 408mm x 255mm
1440x900 59.89 +
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1280x960 60.00
1366x768 59.79
1280x800 59.91
1152x864 75.00
1280x768 59.87
1280x720 60.00 50.00 59.94
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
720x480 60.00 59.94
640x480 75.00 72.81 60.00 59.94
720x400 70.08
1440x900_75.00 74.98*
HDMI-A-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DisplayPort-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-D-1-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1-0 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
1280x720 60.00 + 59.94 50.00
1920x1080 59.94 50.00
1680x1050 59.95
1600x1200 60.00
1440x900 59.89
1366x768 59.79
1360x768 60.02
1280x1024 60.02
1280x960 60.00
1280x800 59.81
1280x768 59.87
1024x768 60.00
800x600 60.32
720x576 50.00
720x480 59.94
640x480 59.94
lspci | grep -E "VGA|3D":
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER] (rev a1)
06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] (rev c9)