Manjaro Gnome AMD Desktop 2nd Monitor is Black after Update

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Hello. I have been using Manjaro approximately more than 1 year, and after last update I couldnt fix this issue. My 2nd Monitor (which is connected by VGA) is black now. My HDMI Screen works normally. Btw, I have backed up before update, so I am not in big trouble, but I can not update my system :slightly_smiling_face:

I have an AMD Desktop with Vega 8, and dual monitors, I have already mentioned above

My inxi -F:

System:
  Host: KOMP Kernel: 5.4.124-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: GNOME 3.38.4 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: A320M-S2H v: N/A 
  serial: <superuser required> 
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: A320M-S2H-CF v: x.x serial: <superuser required> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: F23 date: 08/08/2018 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G with Radeon Vega Graphics 
  bits: 64 type: MCP cache: L2: 2 MiB 
  Speed: 1447 MHz min/max: 1600/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1447 2: 2296 
  3: 1492 4: 1451 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] 
  driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati 
  unloaded: modesetting resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo> 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (RAVEN DRM 3.35.0 
  5.4.124-1-MANJARO LLVM 12.0.0) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.2 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.4.124-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  driver: r8169 
  IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: e0:d5:5e:45:77:bc 
  IF-ID-1: br-feca6e9271b1 state: down mac: 02:42:35:28:70:c8 
  IF-ID-2: docker0 state: down mac: 02:42:38:32:51:08 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 7.51 TiB used: 1.2 TiB (16.0%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM008-2FR102 size: 1.82 TiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb model: SATA SSD size: 238.47 GiB 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD60PURZ-85ZUFY1 
  size: 5.46 TiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 233.43 GiB used: 163.2 GiB (69.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2 
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat 
  dev: /dev/sdb1 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 40.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 40.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 262 Uptime: 19m Memory: 14.67 GiB used: 3 GiB (20.5%) 
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.05

My xrandr:

    Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
    HDMI-A-0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 477mm x 268mm
       1368x768_60.00  59.88 +
       1920x1080     60.00 +  50.00    59.94* 
       1680x1050     59.88  
       1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
       1440x900      74.98    59.90  
       1280x800      60.00  
       1280x720      60.00    50.00    59.94  
       1024x768      75.03    60.00  
       800x600       75.00    60.32  
       720x576       50.00  
       720x480       60.00    59.94  
       640x480       75.00    72.81    66.67    60.00    59.94  
       720x400       70.08  
    DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
    DisplayPort-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

mhwd --list :

0000:07:00.0 (0300:1002:15dd) Display controller ATI Technologies Inc:

              NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE

       video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
 video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
        video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI

0000:06:00.0 (0200:10ec:8168) Network controller Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.:

              NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE

     network-r8168            2016.04.20                true            PCI

Additionally, my previous working 2 Monitor output (before update) of xrandr:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3288 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
HDMI-A-0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 477mm x 268mm
   1368x768_60.00  59.88 +
   1920x1080     60.00 +  50.00    59.94* 
   1680x1050     59.88  
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1440x900      74.98    59.90  
   1280x800      60.00  
   1280x720      60.00    50.00    59.94  
   1024x768      75.03    60.00  
   800x600       75.00    60.32  
   720x576       50.00  
   720x480       60.00    59.94  
   640x480       75.00    72.81    66.67    60.00    59.94  
   720x400       70.08  
DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DisplayPort-0 connected 1368x768+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1368x768_60.00  59.88*+
   640x480       59.94

As seen above, I have 2 Monitors, 1st is HDMI-A-0 connected, and 2nd is DisplayPort-0 connected one.

Additional Info: whenever I install older Manjaro versions with older Kernels, my Dual Monitors are detected normally, so maybe this problem is related with Kernel. I am not sure.

I am expecting your help. I have searched a lot in forums, but I couldnt find the answer for my question

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I have updated my system, and nothing have changed. Isn’t there anyone sharing the same problem with me?

my current inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.52-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64 
  root=UUID=53eaca9c-859c-47f8-b28a-61a79eda0ec9 rw quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: GNOME 40.3 tk: GTK 3.24.30 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 40.0 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: A320M-S2H v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: A320M-S2H-CF v: x.x serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: F23 date: 08/08/2018 
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present? 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 14.66 GiB used: 2.86 GiB (19.5%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G with Radeon Vega Graphics bits: 64 
  type: MCP arch: Zen family: 17 (23) model-id: 11 (17) stepping: 0 
  microcode: 810100B cache: L2: 2 MiB bogomips: 27956 
  Speed: 1420 MHz min/max: 1600/3500 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1420 2: 1420 3: 1419 4: 1422 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1 
  bmi2 bpext clflush clflushopt clzero cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cpuid 
  cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid 
  fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mca 
  mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl 
  npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb 
  perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse pse36 
  rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es sha_ni skinit smap smca sme 
  smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 succor svm svm_lock syscall tce 
  topoext tsc tsc_scale v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wdt 
  xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  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 AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: 
  disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] 
  vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:15dd 
  class-ID: 0300 
  Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.11 compositor: gnome-shell driver: 
  loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo> 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (RAVEN DRM 3.40.0 
  5.10.52-1-MANJARO LLVM 12.0.1) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 07:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:15de class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 07:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.52-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.32 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 
  chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  IF-ID-1: br-feca6e9271b1 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  IF-ID-2: docker0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found. 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.05 TiB used: 165.64 GiB (7.9%) 
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM008-2FR102 
  size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: 0001 scheme: MBR 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 model: SATA SSD size: 238.47 GiB block-size: 
  physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> 
  rev: 11.2 scheme: GPT 
  Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 238.17 GiB size: 233.43 GiB (98.01%) 
  used: 165.64 GiB (71.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 label: N/A 
  uuid: 53eaca9c-859c-47f8-b28a-61a79eda0ec9 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 label: N/A 
  uuid: 4C4D-9988 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 273.44 GiB fs: ext4 label: WD-1 
  uuid: 4b514e31-ecb2-4d9b-b161-7ee9fbe0afba 
  ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 273.44 GiB fs: ext4 label: WD-Data-Backup 
  uuid: 75ffe5e9-26d1-4a07-aead-05c7f51f36e8 
  ID-3: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 1.29 TiB fs: ext4 label: WD-Documents 
  uuid: 1d79a492-bb1c-47a1-92fe-8d36c7f458b1 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 9 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-7:2 info: A4Tech 2.4G Wireless Mouse type: Mouse,Keyboard 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 09da:010e class-ID: 0301 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 3 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 3-2:2 info: Weltrend wired Keyboard [Dynex DX-WRK1401] 
  type: Keyboard,Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 
  speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 040b:2000 class-ID: 0301 
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 1 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-6: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 1 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 36.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 36.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 262 Uptime: 13m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 248 tool: systemctl 
  Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: 1522 pacman: 1507 lib: 437 flatpak: 0 
  snap: 15 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.06

xrandr:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
HDMI-A-0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 477mm x 268mm
   1368x768_60.00  59.88 +
   1920x1080     60.00 +  50.00    59.94* 
   1680x1050     59.88  
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1440x900      74.98    59.90  
   1280x800      60.00  
   1280x720      60.00    50.00    59.94  
   1024x768      75.03    60.00  
   800x600       75.00    60.32  
   720x576       50.00  
   720x480       60.00    59.94  
   640x480       75.00    72.81    66.67    60.00    59.94  
   720x400       70.08  
DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DisplayPort-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

journalctl --catalog --priority=3 --boot=-1

-- Journal begins at Wed 2020-08-19 18:20:08 +03, ends at Sat 2021-07-24 06:26:23 +03. --
Tem 24 06:06:45 KOMP kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Failure creating named object [\_SB.SMIC], AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20190816/dswload2-326)
Tem 24 06:06:45 KOMP kernel: ACPI Error: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name lookup/catalog (20190816/psobject-220)
Tem 24 06:06:45 KOMP kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Failure creating named object [\_SB.SMIB], AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20190816/dsfield-638)
Tem 24 06:06:45 KOMP kernel: cgroup2: Unknown parameter 'memory_recursiveprot'
Tem 24 06:06:46 KOMP kernel: [drm:dc_link_detect [amdgpu]] *ERROR* No EDID read.
Tem 24 06:06:47 KOMP kernel: proc: Bad value for 'hidepid'
Tem 24 06:06:47 KOMP kernel: proc: Bad value for 'hidepid'
Tem 24 06:06:47 KOMP kernel: proc: Bad value for 'hidepid'
Tem 24 06:06:50 KOMP kernel: proc: Bad value for 'hidepid'
Tem 24 06:06:58 KOMP gdm-password][1707]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Tem 24 06:07:25 KOMP gdm[940]: Gdm: Failed to contact accountsservice: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.Accounts: Refusing activation, D-Bus is shutting down.
Tem 24 06:07:27 KOMP kernel: watchdog: watchdog0: watchdog did not stop!

I am using a restored version of Manjaro. However, I need to install MySql to my system and because of this issue, I can’t update my system. If I update, then I lose one of my Screens.

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Hello there.

Anybody didn’t answer my question, however I have found a solution so I want to share with others.

I was using VGA monitor approximately for 2 years with Manjaro and same hardware configuration. After Kernel updates on July of 2021, my computer couldn’t detect VGA Monitor. On google, there are some complaints about this one. As soon as I understand, AMD iGPU wants to finish support of VGA output.

So the cheapest solution I found is, buying a DVI-D 24+1 / VGA ACTIVE Converter, and so, now the same VGA Monitor works like a charm.

Maybe there was a free solution with some code to any settings file, however I couldn’t find. I hope this answer will help people like me.

Addition: This problem actually isn’t related with only Manjaro. I have tried my VGA monitor with a fresh and up to date Debian Distro, and my VGA monitor couldn’t be detected anyway. So, I think this detection problem was bacause new Kernel Versions on Manjaro (and all other Distros of Linux) doesn’t suppor VGA anymore/