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MrTouchpad

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Registered: 2025-12-31

Posts: 14

Re: External monitor

Update: I did a clean reinstall the issue was still there.

Then I was thinking even though the dock works for Windows and MacOS what happens if I plug in using the display port… and guess what that works fine.

The laptop is used for my work, so I prefer to just plug in usb c and use a gui.

Last edited by MrTouchpad (2026-01-02 20:47:46)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: External monitor

I did a clean reinstall the issue was still there.

Recreating the status quo is unlikely to yield results.
From what I understand the problem originally only affected your (wayland) user session but not the (X11) SDDM so if it's not the display server it will be rooted in your $HOME which I assume you intend to keep.

Status quo ante was  that the output and its EDID are detected by the drm module and the problem is somehow w/ your display server resp. session config.

Please post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

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