I can't get my hdmi output working

JuneDay · 2021-05-28 10:14:46

Hello everyone,
i'm new so I hope that I don't post this in the wrong place.

So basically my issue is that I can't get my hdmi output working. It was working when I installed my archlinux but since them I tried to install the nvidia drivers and it broke a lot of things. I managed to get back the most important things but not all of them.
For example after the install I had a blackscreen, so I've added some grub options like nomodset and modset.i915=0. But since then I can't connect an external monitor to my hdmi nor can I adjust my screen brightness.

Right now I am using the integrated graphics of my laptop which is a DELL Precision 5530 from 2018, inside there is a nvidia quadro P1000.
I don't really know what commands output to send to you, so if you need more informations just ask for them and I will send then as soon as possible.

Also I don't really care about the nvidia graphics card, if you have a way to be able to use a second monitor that is not compatible with the graphics card it's not a problem at all.

PS: Sorry for my bad english, I tried to explain my situation the best I can.

V1del · 2021-05-28 10:27:14

remove any modeset parameters you have they will by definition break things.

You'll also need to specify what "broke a lot of things" actually means and what you actually did in response to it.

As this is an optimus system you will want to look into https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA_Optimus decide for one of the approaches and then configure according to the chosen approach.

As for the current state of your system post a

sudo journalctl -b
xrandr --listproviders

as well as a xorg log which is potentially located in two places: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General as well as any xorg configurations you created or generated

Post these in code tags or to a pastebin: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … in_clients

JuneDay · 2021-05-28 11:21:29

Thank you for the reply,
this is a list of things that broke :
-Black screen, fixed with nomodset
-unable to adjust screen brighness
-Sound is "mounted" after one or two minutes after boot
-HDMI output

For optimus, i've already looked into it. The reason why I tried arch is because other distros were using the nvidia GC and it was draining my battery. That's why I would like to only use the integrated graphics. I only use my laptop to code and maybe watch netflix.

This is the ouptut of "sudo journalctl -b"

-- Journal begins at Tue 2021-04-27 17:52:24 CEST, ends at Fri 2021-05-28 13:18:26 CEST. --
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0xde, date = 2020-05-25
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: Linux version 5.12.7-arch1-1 (linux@archlinux) (gcc (GCC) 11.1.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.36.1) #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed, 26 May 2021 22:03:57 +0000
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=1666cb2c-3977-4e98-b021-29aa7f7a041e rw quiet resume=UUID=c2992e1f-27a9-4706-a0ff-892fd>
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x001: 'x87 floating point registers'
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x002: 'SSE registers'
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x004: 'AVX registers'
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x008: 'MPX bounds registers'
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x010: 'MPX CSR'
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: x86/fpu: xstate_offset[2]:  576, xstate_sizes[2]:  256
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: x86/fpu: xstate_offset[3]:  832, xstate_sizes[3]:   64
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: x86/fpu: xstate_offset[4]:  896, xstate_sizes[4]:   64
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: x86/fpu: Enabled xstate features 0x1f, context size is 960 bytes, using 'compacted' format.
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000005dfff] usable
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000005e000-0x000000000005efff] reserved
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000005f000-0x000000000009ffff] usable
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000a0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x0000000060a7bfff] usable
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000060a7c000-0x0000000060a7cfff] ACPI NVS
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000060a7d000-0x0000000060a7dfff] reserved
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000060a7e000-0x000000006d69dfff] usable
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000006d69e000-0x000000006dca9fff] reserved
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000006dcaa000-0x000000006dd26fff] ACPI data
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000006dd27000-0x000000006e1edfff] ACPI NVS
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000006e1ee000-0x000000006fe26fff] reserved
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000006fe27000-0x000000006fffefff] type 20
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000006ffff000-0x000000006fffffff] usable
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000070000000-0x0000000077ffffff] reserved
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000078000000-0x0000000078dfffff] usable
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000078e00000-0x000000007f7fffff] reserved
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000f0000000-0x00000000f7ffffff] reserved
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fe000000-0x00000000fe010fff] reserved
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fec00000-0x00000000fec00fff] reserved
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fee00000-0x00000000fee00fff] reserved
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ff000000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000027c7fffff] usable
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: efi: EFI v2.70 by American Megatrends
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: efi: ACPI 2.0=0x6dcc3000 ACPI=0x6dcc3000 SMBIOS=0x6fabe000 SMBIOS 3.0=0x6fabd000 TPMFinalLog=0x6de4d000 ESRT=0x6fa90698 MEMATTR=0x6b398018 
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: SMBIOS 3.1.1 present.
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: DMI: Dell Inc. Precision 5530/07WDFM, BIOS 1.16.2 04/21/2020
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: tsc: Detected 2500.000 MHz processor
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: tsc: Detected 2499.952 MHz TSC
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: e820: update [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff] usable ==> reserved
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: e820: remove [mem 0x000a0000-0x000fffff] usable
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: last_pfn = 0x27c800 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
mai 28 13:13:00 juneday-precision5530 kernel: x86/PAT: Configuration [0-7]: WB  WC  UC- UC  WB  WP  UC- WT

and this is the output of "xrandr --listproviders" :

Providers: number : 0

seth · 2021-05-28 13:28:49

Please don't copy out of the pager, see the first link in my signature for a convenient way to post text.
The journal is capped in length and width because of this and basically useless.

Having zero providers doesn't sound good, though.
Notice that booting "nomodeset" isn't a fix to anything - you're running on the vesa driver at best which will only provide a minimal set of features.

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#1 2021-05-28 10:14:46

I can't get my hdmi output working

#2 2021-05-28 10:27:14

Re: I can't get my hdmi output working

#3 2021-05-28 11:21:29

Re: I can't get my hdmi output working

#4 2021-05-28 13:28:49

Re: I can't get my hdmi output working

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