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plrigaux

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Registered: 2025-03-25

Posts: 14

[SOLVED] Nvidia, Lost laptop second monitor HDMI detection and display

Hello,

After yesterday Linux and nvidia update, my laptop this morning wasn't able to detect my HDMI second monitor.

I have a dual Inter/Nvidia GPU also called NVIDIA Optimus.

I tried to revert my pacman update to a week before, but It wasn't working

Then I update back to recent, it still wasn't working (obviously).

Then I revert those packages to previous versions, namely:

• nvidia-open 580.119.02-2

• nvidia-open-lts 1:580.119.02-3

• nvidia-utils 580.119.02-1

• linux 6.17.9.arch1-1

My laptop still didn't detect my second monitor

Then I remove all nvidia drivers and update back the linux package, and my second monitor was detected and displaying, but no more nvidia.

I will still continue to play to see if by installing back nvidia drivers my HDMI monitor will be detected.

I keep you updated

PS my current hardware

# System Details Report
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## Report details
- **Date generated:**                              2025-12-21 19:46:11

## Hardware Information:
- **Hardware Model:**                              Dell Inc. Inspiron 7577
- **Memory:**                                      16.0 GiB
- **Processor:**                                   Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ × 8
- **Graphics:**                                    Intel® HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2)
- **Disk Capacity:**                               2.5 TB

## Software Information:
- **Firmware Version:**                            1.17.0
- **OS Name:**                                     Arch Linux
- **OS Build:**                                    (null)
- **OS Type:**                                     64-bit
- **GNOME Version:**                               49
- **Windowing System:**                            Wayland
- **Kernel Version:**                              Linux 6.18.2-arch2-1

Last edited by plrigaux (2025-12-22 01:27:14)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,582

Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia, Lost laptop second monitor HDMI detection and display

With that processor, I'm guessing this is old enough, check the news on the front page.

plrigaux

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Registered: 2025-03-25

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia, Lost laptop second monitor HDMI detection and display

Here my processor as shown by

lspci -k -d ::03xx

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630 (rev 04)
        DeviceName:  Onboard IGD
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0802
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0802
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

I just installed nvidia-580xx-dkms from the AUR and it works

plrigaux

Member

Registered: 2025-03-25

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia, Lost laptop second monitor HDMI detection and display

Ok my bad I'm not used to watch the announcements, but I will.

Based on this announcement  https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=311143 everything is clear and fixed my issue.