Hey guys!
I recently moved across from Arch, all was great (love Manjaro), but I had a bit of a problem with my 3 monitor setup. My Samsung ultra wide would often not get recognized when starting X. I guessed this was due to its slow startup time. I always had to go into nvidia-settings to enable it after starting X.
Eventually I forced the kernel to always recognize it by adding the following to my xorg.conf:
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DP-0, DP-3, HDMI-0"
All was well until an update or 2 ago, and this no longer works. My Samsung monitor is always off until I go into nvidia-settings to enable it.
What’s worse, the following command I had aliased (to quickly cleanup layout) no longer works to switch it on. I can only enable the monitor from nvidia-settings:
xrandr --output DP-0 --primary --auto --pos 1920x1080 --output HDMI-0 --auto --pos 0x0 --output DP-3 --auto --pos 5360x836 --rotate right"
what has changed? any clues? help appreciated
cheers
here’s my 90-mhwd.conf
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 440.100
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
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"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Ancor Communications Inc ASUS VP278"
HorizSync 24.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce GTX 1660"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
Option "metamodes" "HDMI-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DP-3: nvidia-auto-select +5360+836 {rotation=right}, DP-0: nvidia-auto-select +1920+1080"
Option "SLI" "Off"
Option "MultiGPU" "Off"
Option "BaseMosaic" "off"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DP-0, DP-3, HDMI-0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
output from xrandr when everything is set up correctly:
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 6440 x 2756, maximum 32767 x 32767
DP-0 connected primary 3440x1440+1920+1080 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 797mm x 333mm
3440x1440 59.97*+ 74.98
2560x1440 59.95
2560x1080 60.00 59.94
1920x1080 60.00 59.94 50.00
1680x1050 59.95
1600x900 60.00
1440x900 59.89
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
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
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-3 connected 1080x1920+5360+836 right (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 531mm x 299mm
1920x1080 60.00*+
1680x1050 59.95
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1280x960 60.00
1152x864 75.00
1024x768 75.03 60.00
800x600 75.00 60.32 56.25
640x480 75.00 59.94
HDMI-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 598mm x 336mm
1920x1080 60.00*+ 59.94 50.00
1680x1050 59.95
1440x900 59.89
1440x576 50.00
1440x480 59.94
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1280x960 60.00
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-4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-5 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Fabby
23 September 2020 12:15
2
I’m really sorry to have to do this to you as you provided a lot of useful information but :
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thanks! I’m really liking this distro so far
apologies for not reading the posting guidelines!
carl@doolittle:~ $ inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host
System: Kernel: 5.8.6-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8-x86_64 root=UUID=02b0a89d-47ec-4ecd-b098-ac114b58c2e8 rw apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=21ceafc8-fbc7-4514-9b64-ccae9cfd2362 udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.20 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type: Desktop System: Micro-Star product: MS-7B98 v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Micro-Star model: Z390-A PRO (MS-7B98) v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1.80
date: 12/25/2019
Battery: Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M185 serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored)
rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
Memory: RAM: total: 15.57 GiB used: 4.73 GiB (30.4%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU: Topology: 6-Core model: Intel Core i5-9600KF bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 9E (158)
stepping: C (12) microcode: D6 L2 cache: 9216 KiB bogomips: 44412
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2
bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts ept ept_ad erms est
f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr hle 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 pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good rtm 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 status: Not affected
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
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 generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660] vendor: ZOTAC driver: nvidia v: 440.100 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm
bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:2184
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: nvidia display ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 6440x2756 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1700x727mm (66.9x28.6") s-diag: 1849mm (72.8")
Monitor-1: DP-0 res: 3440x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 110 size: 797x333mm (31.4x13.1") diag: 864mm (34")
Monitor-2: DP-3 res: 1080x1920 hz: 60
Monitor-3: HDMI-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 82 size: 598x336mm (23.5x13.2") diag: 686mm (27")
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1660/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 440.100 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a348
Device-2: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: ZOTAC driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1
chip ID: 10de:1aeb
Device-3: NAD NAD USB Audio type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio bus ID: 1-2:34 chip ID: 17ae:0003 serial: <filter>
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.6-1-MANJARO
Network: Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: efa0 bus ID: 00:1f.6
chip ID: 8086:15bc
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 365.17 GiB (39.2%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS100T2B0B-00YS70 size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 20WD scheme: GPT
Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found.
RAID: Message: No RAID data was found.
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 922.42 GiB size: 906.94 GiB (98.32%) used: 365.17 GiB (40.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 label: N/A
uuid: 02b0a89d-47ec-4ecd-b098-ac114b58c2e8
ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 300.0 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) used: 280 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
label: N/A uuid: CA37-6BF4
Swap: Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.80 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda3 label: N/A
uuid: 21ceafc8-fbc7-4514-9b64-ccae9cfd2362
Unmounted: Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB: Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 16 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Device-1: 1-2:34 info: NAD NAD USB Audio type: Audio driver: snd-usb-audio interfaces: 2 rev: 1.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 17ae:0003 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 1-9:4 info: Holtek Keyboard type: Keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1
speed: 1.5 Mb/s chip ID: 04d9:1603
Device-3: 1-10:5 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Mouse,HID driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 2
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 046d:c52f
Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 10 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0003
Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0003
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 32.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 36 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 38%
Info: Processes: 225 Uptime: 9d 1h 51m Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 1158 lib: 365
flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: terminator inxi: 3.1.05
Fabby
2 October 2020 10:20
4
No worries: we live and we learn.
This is good:
What’s the output of xrandr when it doesn’t work?
Did you do a monitor firmware upgrade? (Yes/no: no need to look for one at the moment)
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Weirdly, I can’t recreate this error anymore. It just seems to work now!
Maybe an update “fixed” it?
anyway, thanks for your time Fabby
Welcome to Manjaro! 
