Up until latest system update everything worked fine.
Basically in display settings i disable laptop screen and enable external monitor and make it primary. And it was fine.
But now those settings simply dont work. When I unplug the monitor , its all fine, but if i boot it with monitor, all hell breaks loose, i think that plasmashell crashes every single time when monitor is plugged in so I never see the panel just a blank screen where i still can use Task Runner (alt + f2) and run other programs like dolphin or terminal.
I tried all the combinations that i know to fix this , i deleted plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc and rebooted. I tried both nonfree and free drivers (yes i unfortunately have nvidia gpu + integrated one)
I’ve seen other similar posts on this topic but nothing worked for me.
Am I just trying to do the impossible? Is it just that laptop+external monitor simply doesnt work on Plasma?
Also before the update when everything worked, i didnt even close the lid, i simply just disabled the screen in display settings.
I dont know anymore what is the issue and where to start fixing this. Im contemplating suicide because its all useless if i cant use the big monitor.
heres my inxi :
System:
Kernel: 5.4.85-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4-x86_64
root=UUID=bd6dbd13-60b4-4984-9bf0-9fb675020a88 rw quiet
resume=UUID=582c9884-5c56-4ae4-96d2-12cf94eb2ca2
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11
dm: LightDM 1.30.0, SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: K53SV v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: K53SV v: 1.0 serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends
v: K53SV.324 date: 12/30/2011
CPU:
Info: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium B950 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Sandy Bridge family: 6 model-id: 2A (42) stepping: 7 microcode: 2F
L2 cache: 2 MiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 8384
Speed: 2095 MHz min/max: 800/2100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2095 2: 2095
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Vulnerable
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
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: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0106
Device-2: NVIDIA GF108M [GeForce GT 540M] driver: N/A
alternate: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:0df4
Device-3: Alcor Micro Asus Integrated Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus ID: 1-1.2:4 chip ID: 058f:a014
Display: x11 server: X . Org 1.20.10 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: intel
display ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 507x285mm (20.0x11.2")
s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: VGA1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 81 size: 600x340mm (23.6x13.4")
diag: 690mm (27.2")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 2000 (SNB GT1)
v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.1 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
chip ID: 8086:1c20
Device-2: NVIDIA GF108 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0bea
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.85-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 [Rainbow Peak] driver: iwlwifi
v: kernel port: e040 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 8086:008a
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8168 v: 8.048.03-NAPI modules: r8169 port: 9000
bus ID: 05:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp5s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 33.09 GiB (29.6%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: SHFS37A120G
size: 111.79 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
serial: <filter> rev: BBF0
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: 41.91 GiB size: 41 GiB (97.83%) used: 33.09 GiB (80.7%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 954 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 77.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 182 Uptime: 24m wakeups: 2 Memory: 5.72 GiB
used: 2.72 GiB (47.6%) Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages:
pacman: 1335 lib: 409 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 running in: konsole
inxi: 3.2.01
Please just give me any kind of suggestion , any clue or advice or hint .
