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labotsirc

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Registered: 2013-08-21

Posts: 108

[SOLVED] Connecting extra Monitor, laptop screen goes black.

Whenever i connect a additional monitor through HDMI (my only output), the laptop screen goes black. If i do FN + external_monitor switch, then the laptop screen turns on but the external monitor turns off.
If you move the mouse you can feel that the desktop has been extended as i wanted, it is just that one of the screens keeps going black. The gnome display settings show both screens as active, the menu is so minimalistic that there is not much to do.

system

[cristobal@orion ~]$ uname -a
Linux orion 3.11.4-1-razer #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 8 12:31:50 CLST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux

As a side note, the custom kernel is almost identical to the original archlinux one, just that USB 3.0 module is disabled.

some packages

[cristobal@orion ~]$ pacman -Q nvidia-dkms bumblebee bbswitch-dkms nvidia-utils gnome-desktop 
nvidia-dkms 325.15-2
bumblebee 3.2.1-3
bbswitch-dkms 0.7-1
nvidia-utils 325.15-1
gnome-desktop 1:3.10.0-1

Any ideas?

Last edited by labotsirc (2013-10-15 18:33:18)

labotsirc

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Registered: 2013-08-21

Posts: 108

Re: [SOLVED] Connecting extra Monitor, laptop screen goes black.

The problem is now fixed,

For some weird reason, this time the gnome settings did work. Must have been some sort of rare bug that now i cannot reproduce.

Last edited by labotsirc (2013-10-15 18:32:53)