I just installed Leap, YAST recognized my second monitor but in display configuration only appears my laptop monitor. Laptop Lenovo G530 with Intel 4 mobile series. I tried with 2 monitors.
Thanks in advance.
I just tried hooking up a second monitor also. Same problem. I’m using a Dell XPSL502X with nvidia optimus. The nvidia drivers and bumblebee are installed and appear to be working fine, but when I plug in a secondary monitor, it doesn’t recognize it.
What are your setting in Configure desktop?
I hope you installed the nvidia-bumblebee package and ot the regular NVIDIA driver
You might want to run xrandr and see what it sees
In display and monitor settings it only shows laptop screen, no secondary monitors show up.
nvidia-bumblebee is indeed installed, and it works properly. I can run the nvidia card with optirun.
xrandr returns:
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1366 x 768, maximum 32767 x 32767
LVDS1 connected primary 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm
1366x768 60.1*+
1024x768 60.0
800x600 60.3 56.2
640x480 59.9
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
848x480 (0xf5) 33.8MHz
h: width 848 start 864 end 976 total 1088 skew 0 clock 31.0KHz
v: height 480 start 486 end 494 total 517 clock 60.0Hz
640x480 (0xf6) 25.2MHz
h: width 640 start 656 end 752 total 800 skew 0 clock 31.5KHz
v: height 480 start 489 end 492 total 525 clock 59.9Hz
with a second monitor connected. When I disconnect it, nothing is listed below VIRTUAL1.
Also, I’m connecting the monitor to a mini-display port, which I think should be DP1 but I’m not sure. I don’t know why it’s showing up as virtual1.
I’m guessing this is a problem with the driver, as the external monitor worked just fine in 13.1.
Looking at the hardware info, I have the below information:
>> misc.5: misc data
Oopy, could not figure out *the* active display adapter!
and then the drivers for my video cards are:
P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0
E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0
E: ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE=GF108M [GeForce GT 525M]
E: ID_PCI_CLASS_FROM_DATABASE=Display controller
E: ID_PCI_INTERFACE_FROM_DATABASE=VGA controller
E: ID_PCI_SUBCLASS_FROM_DATABASE=VGA compatible controller
E: ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE=NVIDIA Corporation
E: MODALIAS=pci:v000010DEd00000DF5sv00001028sd000004B6bc03sc00i00
E: PCI_CLASS=30000
E: PCI_ID=10DE:0DF5
E: PCI_SLOT_NAME=0000:01:00.0
E: PCI_SUBSYS_ID=1028:04B6
E: SUBSYSTEM=pci
E: USEC_INITIALIZED=97611
P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/pci_bus/0000:01
E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/pci_bus/0000:01
E: SUBSYSTEM=pci_bus
P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0
E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0
E: DRIVER=i915
E: ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE=2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
E: ID_PCI_CLASS_FROM_DATABASE=Display controller
E: ID_PCI_INTERFACE_FROM_DATABASE=VGA controller
E: ID_PCI_SUBCLASS_FROM_DATABASE=VGA compatible controller
E: ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE=Intel Corporation
E: MODALIAS=pci:v00008086d00000116sv00001028sd000004B6bc03sc00i00
E: PCI_CLASS=30000
E: PCI_ID=8086:0116
E: PCI_SLOT_NAME=0000:00:02.0
E: PCI_SUBSYS_ID=1028:04B6
E: SUBSYSTEM=pci
E: USEC_INITIALIZED=99156
PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[Created at pci.366]
Unique ID: VCu0.GuUHloZoii9
Parent ID: vSkL.zG5hGKNZlz7
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
Hardware Class: graphics card
Model: "nVidia GF108M [GeForce GT 525M]"
Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
Device: pci 0x0df5 "GF108M [GeForce GT 525M]"
SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
SubDevice: pci 0x04b6
Revision: 0xff
Memory Range: 0xf0000000-0xf0ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xcfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd1ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
I/O Ports: 0x3000-0x3fff (rw)
Memory Range: 0xf1000000-0xf107ffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 16 (103 events)
Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000DF5sv00001028sd000004B6bc03sc00i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: nouveau is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nouveau"
Driver Info #1:
Driver Status: nvidia is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nvidia"
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #15 (PCI bridge)
PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[Created at pci.366]
Unique ID: _Znp.77JMDh_o9u9
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0
Hardware Class: graphics card
Model: "Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller"
Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
Device: pci 0x0116 "2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller"
SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
SubDevice: pci 0x04b6
Revision: 0x09
Driver: "i915"
Driver Modules: "drm"
Memory Range: 0xf1400000-0xf17fffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xe0000000-0xefffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
I/O Ports: 0x4000-0x403f (rw)
IRQ: 31 (15815 events)
Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00000116sv00001028sd000004B6bc03sc00i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: i915 is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe i915"
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Obviously, the could not figure out active display adapter error seems problematic, and can anyone tell me if the i915 driver is appropriate for the intel integrated graphics controller? I vaguely seem to recall looking at this information at some point in 13.1 and I’m fairly sure there was a different driver listed, although I have no idea what it was.
You need to identify which Desktop you’re using, and if KDE possibly the Plasma version.
Nowadays,
Assuming the second monitor is detected, configuring is the province of the Desktop’s tools.
If you are using proprietary nVidia drivers, you should also install the proprietary nVidia software which takes priority for configuring.
TSU
I’m using KDE Plasma 5.4.2. The thing about the monitor being detected, is that it’s showing up under Virtual1 rather than DP1. Unless of course, this is supposed to be normal behavior, but I would assume not.
I was also using KDE in 13.1, which recognized the secondary monitor just fine. I don’t remember which version of KDE was installed though.
Be sure you are using the Desktop settings for plasma 5. If you upgraded the older settings program is still there with the same name and the menu program does not display the plasma5 version. go into edit applications (right click the menu icon) redo the Configure Desktop entry to indicate it is the new plasma5 version and be sure that is what you use. keep the old one because in some cases you may need it for some stuff that has not yet moved to 5
Do you mean make sure it says “systemsettings5” on the command line? It’s set to that. I did not upgrade, I wiped the linux partitions and installed 42.1.
Then I don’t know look to your video card settings.
Ok, thanks. I’m still pretty much a noob, where do I find my video card settings?
Depends on what video card and drivers For NVIDIA is is nvidia-settings but not sure that works with Optimus systems since all output goes through the Intel GPU. Check with the manufacturer . in KDE in the menu look in System-configuration
Anyone have any other ideas as to what might be causing this? The intel video driver should be able to operate the external display on DP1, but for some reason when I plug in an external monitor it is showing up under Virtual1 in xrandr. Anyone know how to get it to show up under DP1? Thanks.