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nRat

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Registered: 2024-04-16

Posts: 1

Lenovo Laptop & Wayland will only output to DVI or VGA never both

Hi All,

I am using a Lenovo R500 (Intel built-in graphics) with wayland running KDE Plasma and am struggling to get multiple monitors to work at once, in conjunction with the laptop display. I can plug both in but only the LVDS-1 monitor and DP-1 will work in conjunction. If I unplug DP-1, VGA-1 will come on.

All refresh rates and resolutions are optimal. In Plasma when I go to display configuration all displays show up, are enabled and detect correctly, but only one of the two externals will display at a time.

Physical layout: Laptop > right >> VGA1 is portrait >> right >> DP-1 is Landscape. I want each monitor to extend the next.

I am fairly certain that I have gotten this setup (all 3 displays) working in Sway previously, but I may be mis-remembering here.

Graphics Card:

lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
    Subsystem: Lenovo Device 20e5
    Kernel driver in use: i915

Outputs:
kscreen-doctor -o

Output: 1 LVDS-1
	enabled
	connected
	priority 2
	Panel
	Modes:  0:1280x800@60*!  1:1280x800@50  2:1024x768@60  3:1280x800@60  4:1280x720@60
	Geometry: 0,1856 1280x800
	Scale: 1
	Rotation: 1
	Overscan: 0
	Vrr: incapable
	RgbRange: unknown
	HDR: incapable
	Wide Color Gamut: incapable
	ICC profile: none
Output: 2 DP-1
	enabled
	connected
	priority 1
	DisplayPort
	Modes:  0:1920x1080@60*!  1:1920x1080@60  2:1920x1080@60  3:1920x1080@50  4:1920x1080@50  5:1680x1050@60  6:1400x1050@60  7:1600x900@60  8:1280x1024@75  9:1280x1024@60  10:1440x900@60  11:1280x960@60  12:1280x800@60  13:1152x864@75  14:1280x720@60  15:1280x720@60  16:1280x720@60  17:1280x720@50  18:1024x768@75  19:1024x768@70  20:1024x768@60  21:832x624@75  22:800x600@75  23:800x600@72  24:800x600@60  25:800x600@56  26:720x576@50  27:720x576@50  28:720x480@60  29:720x480@60  30:720x480@60  31:720x480@60  32:640x480@75  33:640x480@73  34:640x480@67  35:640x480@60  36:640x480@60  37:720x400@70
	Geometry: 1167,1576 1920x1080
	Scale: 1
	Rotation: 1
	Overscan: 0
	Vrr: incapable
	RgbRange: Full
	HDR: incapable
	Wide Color Gamut: incapable
	ICC profile: none
Output: 3 VGA-1
	enabled
	connected
	priority 3
	VGA
	Modes:  0:1920x1080@60*!  1:1680x1050@60  2:1400x1050@60  3:1600x900@60  4:1280x1024@75  5:1280x1024@60  6:1440x900@60  7:1280x960@60  8:1280x800@60  9:1152x864@75  10:1280x720@60  11:1024x768@75  12:1024x768@70  13:1024x768@60  14:832x624@75  15:800x600@75  16:800x600@72  17:800x600@60  18:800x600@56  19:640x480@75  20:640x480@73  21:640x480@67  22:640x480@60  23:720x400@70
	Geometry: 200,0 1080x1920
	Scale: 1
	Rotation: 2
	Overscan: 0
	Vrr: incapable
	RgbRange: unknown
	HDR: incapable
	Wide Color Gamut: incapable
	ICC profile: none

I have tried searching both the Forums and the web at large, mostly I find people using X or having issues with swaylock/swayidle so none of the solutions apply. I would greatly appreciate if anyone could offer some advice to go about resolving this.