Problem with second monitor

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The second monitor just won’t turn on in nvidia-settins.

In the nvidia-settings panel it is marked as disabled, but I just can’t turn it on - the apply settings button is not clickable
nvidia-settngs screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/fRrilLW

The problem is not the wire or the monitor - the system just does not want to work with two monitors. (you can disconnect the main monitor, reboot the pc and the second monitor works, but also if after that connect the main monitor - the problem is now for him)

specs:
AMD CPU (5950x) with RTX 3080.
Proprietary GPU drivers 525.60.11.
Kernel 5.15.85-1
The main monitor is connected via dp, the second via hdmi.

xorg.conf: https://anonfiles.com/xcrc20Ocy0/xorg_conf

any ideas how to fix it?

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Manjaro uses MHWD so when installing the driver, the /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf is generated automatically, and even tho is generic works on most installs by default. That is the file you want to alter if you are going for a different layout.
xorg.conf should not exist, so remove it.

Edit the /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf and make it like this:

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

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "XMI Mi Monitor"
    HorizSync       160.0 - 160.0
    VertRefresh     48.0 - 144.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option         "TripleBuffer"  "On"
    Option  "ConnectToAcpid"    "Off"
    Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0 {ForceCompositionPipeline=On}"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Option         "Coolbits" "31"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "COMPOSITE" "Enable"
EndSection

 
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier          "Keyboard Defaults"
    MatchIsKeyboard        "yes"
    Option              "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection

If the Option "TripleBuffer" "On" under the Section "Device" creates issues, remove that line …
Save it and then open up terminal and run:
sudo mhwd-gpu --setmod nvidia --setxorg /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf

If you want to make a fixed layout from Nvidia X Server Settings, both monitors need to be set to Absolute and you have to define both connectors and the nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder to start with the correct one.

Also you might have to enable early KMS

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