Remove xf86-video-intel and retry. Also maybe check/post a xorg log after such a failure.
Tried again after removing xf86-video-intel and it didn't have any change other than graphics very slow and glitchy.
I'm back on i3 again now by the way seeing as gnome didn't make a difference.
Here's my xorg log with the monitor plugged when I turn on the laptop: https://pastebin.com/a72w9LmZ
]]>Vanilla Arch with i3-gaps and no DM. I'm using startx/xinit.
Find my laptops dotfiles here: https://github.com/adamstuck/dotfiles/tree/laptop
Probably important files:
.bash_profile (startx),
.config/X11/xinitrc
I'm running arch on my Acer Swift 1 and it's been going fairly smoothly except for a few issues. The biggest being I can't seem to get external displays to work at all. When I try to mirror or extend my laptop with an external monitor, whether by xrandr or arandr, I end up with two competely black, backlit screens. At this point my laptop doesn't respond to any input and I can't see anything. I can't access another TTY. So I have no choice but to hold the power key to restart.
One weird thing is if I have my external monitor plugged in and then I boot the laptop it actually mirrors the monitors as a default behavior. So how do I do this myself from the terminal, for when I want to plug a monitor in without having to restart my laptop?
Standard xrandr output:
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
eDP1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 310mm x 170mm
1920x1080 60.01*+ 59.93
1680x1050 59.88
1400x1050 59.98
1600x900 60.00 59.95 59.82
1280x1024 60.02
1400x900 59.96 59.88
1280x960 60.00
1368x768 60.00 59.88 59.85
1280x800 59.81 59.91
1280x720 59.86 60.00 59.74
1024x768 60.00
1024x576 60.00 59.90 59.82
960x540 60.00 59.63 59.82
800x600 60.32 56.25
864x486 60.00 59.92 59.57
640x480 59.94
720x405 59.51 60.00 58.99
640x360 59.84 59.32 60.00
HDMI1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
2048x1080 60.00 24.00
1920x1080 60.00 60.00 50.00 59.94 25.00 24.00 23.98
1920x1080i 60.00 50.00 59.94 50.00
1600x1200 60.00
1600x900 60.00
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1152x864 75.00
1280x720 60.00 50.00 59.94
1024x768 75.03 60.00
800x600 75.00 60.32
720x576 50.00
720x576i 50.00
720x480 60.00 59.94
720x480i 60.00 59.94
640x480 75.00 60.00 59.94
720x400 70.08
VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Things I've tried:
xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode 1920x1080
xrandr --output eDP1 --mode 1920x1080 --output HDMI1 --mode 1920x1080 --same-as eDP1
xrandr --output eDP1 --mode 1920x1080 --fb 1920x1080 --panning 1920x1080* --output HDMI1 --mode 1920x1080 --same-as eDP1
In arandr I just activated HDM1 with: Outputs > HDMI1 > Active. Then I dragged HDM1 to the side of my laptop monitor just as an attempt to try extending the display. After hitting the green check mark I get the same issue. Two black, backlit monitors and seemingly no response to any keyboard input.
I've been reading through the wiki and stackoverflow and using my google-fu, but I can't seem to find a solution to my issue anywhere. So any ideas?
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