Hello,
I have an Acer Nitro 5 laptop with a pretty generic install of Debian 12.4, no special nVidia drivers or anything.It has the geforce rtx 4050 chip. It appears it also has an Intel video controller in the chipset: I could have sworn I had used this computer in a dual monitor setup with my TV on the HDMI port, but now, nothing. The only change I can think of was going from Debian 12.1 to 12.4 I am so used to things "just working" that I am afraid I'm a bit rusty at dealing with display issues. I tried a bunch of things, including installing the proprietary (ugh) nVidia driver, and that trashed the system, so obviously I futzed that up somehow. I am not sure what information is relevant, so am happy to post whatever is requested. I hope someone can point me in the right direction, at least. I used to be pretty good at figuring this stuff out, starting with Sarge in 2005, but either I'm getting dumber, or too much has changed....old dogs, new tricks and all that.
I just want to be able to once again use a dual monitor setup....
*Edit* I noticed it's running the nouveau driver....something else I just noticed; when I plug in the cable, the little window pops up to set the orientation of the monitors, although it doesn't do anything, and won't go away until I unplug the cable. I wouldn't be surprised it it's something simple....
The plot thickens, both controllers are at /dev/fb0
I have an Acer Nitro 5 laptop with a pretty generic install of Debian 12.4, no special nVidia drivers or anything.It has the geforce rtx 4050 chip. It appears it also has an Intel video controller in the chipset:
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0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P GT1 [UHD Graphics] (rev 0c)0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation AD107M [GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q / Mobile] (rev a1)I just want to be able to once again use a dual monitor setup....
*Edit* I noticed it's running the nouveau driver....something else I just noticed; when I plug in the cable, the little window pops up to set the orientation of the monitors, although it doesn't do anything, and won't go away until I unplug the cable. I wouldn't be surprised it it's something simple....
The plot thickens, both controllers are at /dev/fb0
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gary@debian:~$ sudo lshw -C video *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: AD107M [GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q / Mobile] vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 logical name: /dev/fb0 version: a1 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list fb configuration: depth=32 latency=0 mode=1920x1080 visual=truecolor xres=1920 yres=1080 resources: iomemory:600-5ff iomemory:620-61f memory:61000000-61ffffff memory:6000000000-61ffffffff memory:6200000000-6201ffffff ioport:4000(size=128) memory:62080000-620fffff *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Alder Lake-P GT1 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 logical name: /dev/fb0 version: 0c width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb configuration: depth=32 driver=i915 latency=0 resolution=1920,1080 resources: iomemory:620-61f iomemory:400-3ff irq:165 memory:6204000000-6204ffffff memory:4000000000-400fffffff ioport:5000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff memory:4010000000-4016ffffff memory:4020000000-40ffffffffStatistics: Posted by yankeeFarmer — 2024-01-22 05:52