Hello everyone,
after the recent update on my laptop my external monitor in the VGA port won’t get recognised anymore: When booting with the monitor plugged in I see a duplicated view of my internal screen. After fully logging in the external screen gets deactivated. Replugging doesn’t help. What helps is plugging a (not connected) HDMI-to-VGA-adaptor into the HDMI-port - now the system correctly detects three screens (internal, external on VGA and “virtual” on HDMI). Removing the adaptor instantly deactivates the VGA port. An unconnected HDMI-cable doesn’t help.
I did a few things, but the situation didn’t change at all. So I hope you have some ideas on where to look on my system, what to try or where to post this next. Thanks a lot!
What I did:
The update:
[2022-10-18T17:07:04+0200] [ALPM] upgraded manjaro-pulse (20221002-1 -> 20221015-2)
[2022-10-18T17:06:53+0200] [ALPM] upgraded linux54-virtualbox-host-modules (6.1.38-7 -> 6.1.38-9)
[2022-10-18T17:06:40+0200] [ALPM] upgraded linux54-nvidia (515.76-3 -> 520.56.06-3)
[2022-10-18T17:06:39+0200] [ALPM] upgraded linux54 (5.4.217-1 -> 5.4.218-2)
[2022-10-18T17:06:23+0200] [ALPM] upgraded linux515-virtualbox-host-modules (6.1.38-9 -> 6.1.38-12)
[2022-10-18T17:06:09+0200] [ALPM] upgraded linux515-nvidia (515.76-14 -> 520.56.06-3)
[2022-10-18T17:06:08+0200] [ALPM] upgraded linux515 (5.15.72-1 -> 5.15.74-3)
[2022-10-18T17:05:55+0200] [ALPM] upgraded linux510-virtualbox-host-modules (6.1.38-8 -> 6.1.38-9)
[2022-10-18T17:05:45+0200] [ALPM] upgraded linux510-nvidia (515.76-4 -> 520.56.06-2)
[2022-10-18T17:05:45+0200] [ALPM] upgraded linux510 (5.10.147-1 -> 5.10.148-1)
[2022-10-18T17:05:21+0200] [ALPM] upgraded lib32-nvidia-utils (515.76-1 -> 520.56.06-1)
[2022-10-18T17:05:10+0200] [ALPM] upgraded mhwd-nvidia-470xx (470.141.03-2 -> 470.141.03-3)
[2022-10-18T17:05:10+0200] [ALPM] upgraded mhwd-nvidia (515.76-1 -> 520.56.06-2)
[2022-10-18T17:05:07+0200] [ALPM] upgraded nvidia-utils (515.76-1 -> 520.56.06-2)
Installing Kernel 5.19, didn’t help, so also removed again, to stay on LTS.
[2022-10-18T19:23:00+0200] [ALPM] removed linux519 (5.19.16-2)
[2022-10-18T19:22:57+0200] [ALPM] removed linux519-virtualbox-host-modules (6.1.38-11)
[2022-10-18T19:22:41+0200] [ALPM] removed linux519-nvidia (520.56.06-3)
[2022-10-18T19:07:54+0200] [ALPM] installed linux519-nvidia (520.56.06-3)
[2022-10-18T19:07:51+0200] [ALPM] installed linux519-virtualbox-host-modules (6.1.38-11)
[2022-10-18T19:07:51+0200] [ALPM] installed linux519 (5.19.16-2)
downgrading nvidia to 515, didn’t help, so updating again
[2022-10-18T20:03:00+0200] [ALPM] upgraded linux54-nvidia (515.76-3 -> 520.56.06-3)
[2022-10-18T20:02:45+0200] [ALPM] upgraded linux515-nvidia (515.76-14 -> 520.56.06-3)
[2022-10-18T20:02:27+0200] [ALPM] upgraded linux510-nvidia (515.76-4 -> 520.56.06-2)
[2022-10-18T20:02:27+0200] [ALPM] upgraded lib32-nvidia-utils (515.76-1 -> 520.56.06-1)
[2022-10-18T20:02:26+0200] [ALPM] upgraded nvidia-utils (515.76-1 -> 520.56.06-2)
[2022-10-18T19:29:37+0200] [ALPM] downgraded linux54-nvidia (520.56.06-3 -> 515.76-3)
[2022-10-18T19:29:02+0200] [ALPM] downgraded linux510-nvidia (520.56.06-2 -> 515.76-4)
[2022-10-18T19:29:02+0200] [ALPM] downgraded lib32-nvidia-utils (520.56.06-1 -> 515.76-1)
[2022-10-18T19:28:49+0200] [ALPM] downgraded linux515-nvidia (520.56.06-3 -> 515.76-14)
[2022-10-18T19:28:49+0200] [ALPM] downgraded nvidia-utils (520.56.06-2 -> 515.76-1)
noticed prime-run stopped working, so reinstalled that and it’s working as before
[2022-10-18T20:18:36+0200] [ALPM] reinstalled nvidia-prime (1.0-4)
I always rebooted between changes and some more.
With the recent updates to the nvidia driver, do you think it is still worth going through the hassle of installing optimus-manager? (suggested in https://forum.manjaro.org/t/vga-isnt-working-after-updating-to-nvidia-drivers/34353 ) Or would you recommend to wait for updates? Or even to uninstall nvidia-prime?
$ export LANG=C
$ inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --width
System:
Kernel: 5.15.74-3-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
root=UUID=2e885956-1391-4cc5-abf7-cb47acfdb905 rw
resume=UUID=8c106616-5ee0-4736-82f9-32edaa47567d quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.25.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.6 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire E5-571G v: V1.26
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Acer model: EA50_HB v: V1.26 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: Insyde v: 1.26 date: 12/18/2014
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 40.9 Wh (100.0%) condition: 40.9/55.9 Wh (73.2%)
volts: 12.9 min: 11.1 model: SANYO 0032334134314C41 type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: full
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.54 GiB used: 6.06 GiB (39.0%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges
required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-5200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Broadwell
gen: core 5 level: v3 note: check built: 2015-18 process: Intel 14nm
family: 6 model-id: 0x3D (61) stepping: 4 microcode: 0x2F
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2193 high: 2198 min/max: 500/2700 scaling:
driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 2198 2: 2187 3: 2195
4: 2195 bogomips: 17567
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon
avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush 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 ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid
invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe 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 xsave xsaveopt
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: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
Type: retbleed 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: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915
v: kernel arch: Gen-8 process: Intel 14nm built: 2014-15 ports:
active: DP-1,HDMI-A-2,eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:1616 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 840M] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: nvidia v: 520.56.06 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 515.xx+
status: current (as of 2022-10) arch: Maxwell code: GMxxx
process: TSMC 28nm built: 2014-19 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 4
link-max: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1341
class-ID: 0302
Device-3: Chicony HD WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-7:3
chip-ID: 04f2:b455 class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa
dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2945x2160 s-dpi: 120 s-size: 621x456mm (24.45x17.95")
s-diag: 770mm (30.33")
Monitor-1: DP-1 pos: primary,top-left model: BenQ G2250 serial: <filter>
built: 2013 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 102 gamma: 1.2
size: 477x268mm (18.78x10.55") diag: 547mm (21.5") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
Monitor-2: HDMI-A-2 mapped: HDMI-2 pos: bottom-r model: TS35505
serial: <filter> built: 2021 res: 1024x768 hz: 60 dpi: 102 gamma: 0.97
size: 256x192mm (10.08x7.56") diag: 378mm (14.9") ratio: 4:3, 5:4 modes:
max: 1024x768 min: 640x480
Monitor-3: eDP-1 pos: primary,bottom-c model: LG Display 0x04a7
built: 2015 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2
size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9
modes: 1920x1080
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.7
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:160c
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Acer
Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:9ca0 class-ID: 0403
Sound API: ALSA v: k5.15.74-3-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.58 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Acer
Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: 4000 bus-ID: 02:00.1 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp2s0f1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full 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: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:08b3 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp3s0 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
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-5:2 chip-ID: 8087:07dc class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 433.82 GiB (46.6%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ02ABD100H
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 1A scheme: GPT
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: ■■■■■■■■ model: DVD-RAM UJ8HC rev: 1.00
dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 100 GiB size: 97.87 GiB (97.87%) used: 68.02 GiB (69.5%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda8 maj-min: 8:8 label: N/A
uuid: 2e885956-1391-4cc5-abf7-cb47acfdb905
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%) used: 312 KiB
(0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 label: N/A uuid: 9300-6434
ID-3: /home raw-size: 234.16 GiB size: 229.43 GiB (97.98%) used: 143.66
GiB (62.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda9 maj-min: 8:9 label: N/A
uuid: e7a9c87d-a4c9-46ba-afa7-89fae32fe74c
ID-4: /mnt/docdrive raw-size: 341.8 GiB size: 341.8 GiB (100.00%)
used: 222.14 GiB (65.0%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
label: Dokumente uuid: AC2E17D32E179584
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 10 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 90
dev: /dev/sda7 maj-min: 8:7 label: N/A
uuid: 8c106616-5ee0-4736-82f9-32edaa47567d
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 529 MiB fs: ntfs label: Wiederherstellung
uuid: 8E424EC2424EAF31
ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 100 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A
uuid: DA50-6B69
ID-3: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-4: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 size: 244.42 GiB fs: ntfs label: Programme
uuid: EED25E5AD25E275D
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 11 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-5:2 info: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: Bluetooth
driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
chip-ID: 8087:07dc class-ID: e001
Device-2: 1-7:3 info: Chicony HD WebCam type: Video driver: uvcvideo
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 04f2:b455
class-ID: 0e02
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C pch: 44.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 268 Uptime: 39m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 251
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 clang: 14.0.6
Packages: 2053 pm: pacman pkgs: 2047 libs: 466 tools: pamac pm: flatpak
pkgs: 6 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole
inxi: 3.3.22