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cbaci

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Registered: 2025-01-13

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Asus MV-50 / Nvidia G96CM ext. monitor good, laptop displays artifacts

Installing latest arch iso (6.12.9-arch1-1)
Desktop
Ifce4

On the venerable Asus MV-50 with VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA G96CM [GeForce 9600M GS] (rev a1).

I've tried with the HMDI port as well. Same behavior. When I first install, both screens function. I can mouse between them and both show up in the settings >> Display. They function until I have to reboot. Then after starting, the login prompt is on the external monitor. Once mouse moves over to laptop display, that shows smeared artifacts from boot screen. Mouse cursor is clear and moves but the display goes dark except for some misaligned text. As Im new to Linux and Arch Linux I appreciate any help I can get. Not sure which log files to view as it's happening.

I DO have Deskflow installed as a soft kvm, this is working well, even with the laptop display freaking out.

Heres the output from lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
...

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G96CM [GeForce 9600M GS] (rev a1)

...

09:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
09:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
09:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
09:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)

lscpi -V

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G96CM [GeForce 9600M GS] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1892
	Physical Slot: 16
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 32
	Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Memory at fa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
	I/O ports at cc00 [size=128]
	Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: nouveau
	Kernel modules: nouveau