KDE aks for monitor switching on a desktop PC

[hcvv]

New HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-2050nl.

The monitor is connected through the HDMI cable.

Every now and then KDE pops-up rather huge rectangle in the middle of the screen. It shows four images each one with two monitors, either close to each other, or separated or different, red arrows and texts like "Switch to laptop", "Switch to external", ...., and the most right image is a huge circle with a dash. Clicking the last removes the rectangle. The rectangle removes itself after about 10-20 secs.

What is the idea. Special because one or more of the images talks about "laptop". And of course, how to get rid of it for good. And maybe file a bug with KDE when I understand more of this phenomenon.

[dcurtisfra]

@hcvv:

Henk, which GPU Driver are you using?

• The box has an AMD Ryzen™ 5 3400G CPU with integrated GPU.

You should be using the “amdgpu” driver.

 > lsmod | grep -i 'amd'
edac_mce_amd           32768  0
kvm_amd               110592  0
ccp                   102400  1 kvm_amd
kvm                   786432  1 kvm_amd
gpio_amdpt             20480  0
gpio_generic           20480  1 gpio_amdpt
amdgpu               6381568  62
iommu_v2               24576  1 amdgpu
gpu_sched              45056  1 amdgpu
i2c_algo_bit           16384  1 amdgpu
ttm                   118784  1 amdgpu
drm_kms_helper        262144  1 amdgpu
drm                   618496  26 gpu_sched,drm_kms_helper,amdgpu,ttm
 >

[hcvv]

beneden:~ # lsmod | grep -i 'amd'
edac_mce_amd           32768  0
kvm_amd               110592  0
ccp                   102400  1 kvm_amd
kvm                   786432  1 kvm_amd
gpio_amdpt             20480  0
gpio_generic           20480  1 gpio_amdpt
beneden:~ #

Is this correct or not?

BTW, I just installed a fresh 15.3 and did not specify anything about GPU drivers.

[dcurtisfra]

[CODE]Is this correct or not?

Henk, you need the “amdgpu” driver –

 # modprobe amdgpu

[hcvv]

Henk, you need the “amdgpu” driver –

 # modprobe amdgpu

Did that. Should this work imediatly or is a reboot needed?

[hcvv]

Hm, I should of course have posted:

beneden:~ # lsmod | grep -i 'amd'
amdgpu               6381568  0
iommu_v2               24576  1 amdgpu
gpu_sched              45056  1 amdgpu
i2c_algo_bit           16384  1 amdgpu
ttm                   118784  1 amdgpu
drm_kms_helper        262144  1 amdgpu
edac_mce_amd           32768  0
kvm_amd               110592  0
ccp                   102400  1 kvm_amd
kvm                   786432  1 kvm_amd
gpio_amdpt             20480  0
gpio_generic           20480  1 gpio_amdpt
drm                   618496  4 gpu_sched,drm_kms_helper,amdgpu,ttm
beneden:~ #

Looks rather different from what it was. We (it is the system my wife uses most) will now watch if the blob returns or not.

[hcvv]

It is still popping up. I will do a reboot first.

[hcvv]

It is still popping up. I will do a reboot first.

Not a clever action. Now the situation is as before the modprobe.

Something to make that stick over boot?

[hui]

should work:

create the config file:
/etc/modules-load.d/amdgpu.conf


open it and add the module name:
amdgpu

[hcvv]

The directory did alreadyu exist, but was empty

beneden:/etc/modules-load.d # cat /etc/modules-load.d/amdgpu.conf 
amdgpu
beneden:/etc/modules-load.d #

Reboot.

beneden:~ # lsmod | grep -i 'amd'
edac_mce_amd           32768  0
kvm_amd               110592  0
ccp                   102400  1 kvm_amd
kvm                   786432  1 kvm_amd
amdgpu               6381568  0
gpio_amdpt             20480  0
gpio_generic           20480  1 gpio_amdpt
iommu_v2               24576  1 amdgpu
gpu_sched              45056  1 amdgpu
i2c_algo_bit           16384  1 amdgpu
ttm                   118784  1 amdgpu
drm_kms_helper        262144  1 amdgpu
drm                   618496  4 gpu_sched,drm_kms_helper,amdgpu,ttm
beneden:~ #

Now waiting what happens.