So I installed Manjaro on my HP Omen 15 (2018) laptop last weekend and unfortunately I am having issues with one of my monitors. I have two identical monitors (Acer XV253Q). The left monitor is connected using HDMI, and the right one using DP 1.4. Both at 144hz refresh rate. I am not using the laptop’s built in monitor, lid is closed.
When both monitors turn off due to ‘Screen energy saving’ and I wake them up by moving my mouse or press keys, only the right monitor wakes up correctly. The left monitor does turn on, but it only shows “no signal” and just turns off again. The only way to get it working again is by rebooting, or changing something in the display settings and applying it.
I found out that if I change the left monitor’s refresh rate to 120Hz instead of 144Hz, it does wake up correctly. I changed the screen energy saving switch off time to 1 minute, and tried it many times to confirm it is only happening when running 144Hz. So for some reason the issue is not occurring with 120Hz?
Why is this happening? I would like to have 144hz on my left monitor as well. 
I’m coming from Windows 10, there it worked fine so it is not a faulty monitor or anything.
Things I have tried that did not fix this:
- Using Kernel 5.10.89-1 instead of 5.15.12-1
- Add Option “HardDPMS” “False” in the device section in /etc/x11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf
- Only connect the left monitor.
- Set left monitor as primary instead of right one.
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-mhwd.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 495.44
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
# Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "NoLogo" "1"
Option "HardDPMS" "True"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
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
xrandr (output is the same during the issue)
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3840 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
HDMI-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 543mm x 302mm
1920x1080 60.00 + 143.98 119.98* 84.90 59.94 50.00 23.98
3840x2160 59.94 50.00 29.97 25.00 23.98
1680x1050 59.95
1440x900 59.89
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1280x960 60.00
1280x800 59.81
1280x720 60.00 59.94 50.00
1152x864 75.00
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
800x600 75.00 72.19 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00
720x480 59.94
640x480 75.00 72.81 59.94 59.93
DP-0 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
1920x1080 144.00 + 60.00
640x480 59.94
DP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 543mm x 302mm
1920x1080 60.00 + 143.98* 119.98 84.90 59.94 50.00
1680x1050 59.95
1440x900 59.89
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1280x960 60.00
1280x800 59.81
1280x720 60.00 59.94 50.00
1152x864 75.00
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
800x600 75.00 72.19 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00
720x480 59.94
640x480 75.00 72.81 59.94 59.93
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --width
System:
Kernel: 5.15.12-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
root=UUID=fa611949-eabe-4011-a503-beed685a6a84 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Console: pty pts/1 wm: kwin_x11 DM: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: OMEN by HP Laptop 15-dc0xxx v: N/A
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: N/A
Mobo: HP model: 84DB v: 93.21 serial: <filter> UEFI: AMI v: F.08
date: 02/21/2019
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 45.8 Wh (100.0%) condition: 45.8/45.8 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 17.2 min: 15.4 model: HP Primary type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: Full
ID-2: hidpp_battery_0 charge: 100% condition: N/A volts: 4.2 min: N/A
model: Logitech G Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse type: N/A serial: <filter>
status: Full
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.51 GiB used: 3.4 GiB (21.9%)
Array-1: capacity: 32 GiB slots: 2 EC: None max-module-size: 16 GiB
note: est.
Device-1: Bottom - Slot 1 (top) size: No Module Installed
Device-2: Bottom - Slot 2 (under) size: 16 GiB speed: 2667 MT/s type: DDR4
detail: synchronous bus-width: 64 bits total: 64 bits manufacturer: SK Hynix
part-no: HMA82GS6CJR8N-VK serial: <filter>
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-8750H socket: BGA1440 (U3E1) note: check bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake family: 6 model-id: 0x9E (158)
stepping: 0xA (10) microcode: 0xEA
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB
L3: 9 MiB desc: 1x9 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4100 base/boost: 3861/8300 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave volts: 1.2 V ext-clock: 100 MHz
cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800
10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 bogomips: 52815
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon
art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid
cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est
f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window
hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm
lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae
pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti
pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2
sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust
tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt
xsaves xtopology xtpr
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: NVIDIA GP104BM [GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: nvidia v: 495.44 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1be1 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP Wide Vision HD
Integrated Webcam
type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-6:3 chip-ID: 05c8:03bc class-ID: 0e02
Display: server: X.org 1.21.1.2 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: nvidia resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GP104 High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f0
class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.12-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.42 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:a370 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 3c:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) type: USB
driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:5 chip-ID: 8087:0aaa class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
v: 3.0 port: 5020 bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086:282a rev: N/A class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 565.21 GiB (48.3%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
model: MZVLW256HEHP-000H1 size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: CXB73H1Q temp: 30.9 C scheme: GPT
SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 43d 11h cycles: 1,197
read-units: 22,617,704 [11.5 TB] written-units: 21,106,856 [10.8 TB]
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000MX500SSD1
family: Micron Client SSDs size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B sata: 3.3 speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 023 temp: 40 C scheme: GPT
SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 133d 23h cycles: 858
written: 2.75 TiB
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 238.17 GiB size: 233.38 GiB (97.99%)
used: 24.84 GiB (10.6%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
maj-min: 259:2 label: N/A uuid: fa611949-eabe-4011-a503-beed685a6a84
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
maj-min: 259:1 label: NO_LABEL uuid: 468E-7275
ID-3: /run/media/eric/MX500 raw-size: 906.5 GiB size: 906.5 GiB (100.00%)
used: 540.37 GiB (59.6%) fs: ntfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda2
maj-min: 8:2 label: MX500 uuid: D038DEE938DECE1A
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 16 MiB fs: N/A label: N/A uuid: N/A
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0610 class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 1-1.1:9 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0610 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-1.1.2:10 info: Logitech USB Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID
driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c539 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: 1-1.3:6 info: Logitech G Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse
type: Mouse,Keyboard,HID driver: logitech-hidpp-device,usbhid interfaces: 3
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 498mA chip-ID: 046d:c088 class-ID: 0300
serial: <filter>
Device-3: 1-1.4:8 info: Hoksi DGK68C type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: 2f68:4001 class-ID: 0300
Device-4: 1-6:3 info: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP Wide
Vision HD Integrated Webcam
type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: 05c8:03bc class-ID: 0e02
Device-5: 1-14:5 info: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP)
type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0aaa class-ID: e001
Hub-4: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 8 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-5: 2-1:2 info: Genesys Logic GL3523 Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1
speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 05e3:0620 class-ID: 0900
Hub-6: 2-1.1:4 info: Genesys Logic GL3523 Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1
speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 05e3:0620 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C pch: 49.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia
temp: 45 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 330 Uptime: 2h 32m wakeups: 14 Init: systemd v: 250
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages: pacman: 1232 lib: 336
flatpak: 0 Shell: Zsh (sudo) v: 5.8 default: Bash v: 5.1.12
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.11