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machinegod420

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Registered: 2015-01-05

Posts: 28

DisplayPort monitor not working correctly?

I recently upgraded to a 1080TI and that required me to switch one of my cables to a displayport. I used to have two monitors that had 2 HDMI, now it is 1 HDMI and 1 DisplayPort. However, it seems that x server is not liking this. The DisplayPort monitor isnt automatically activated, and manually activating through arandr or xrandr causes strange issues.

You can see here
https://imgur.com/a/b3yGitM

How the window manager doesnt show up on the displayport monitor, and all applications immediately snap to the right side and I cannot move them.

My xrandr output is as follows:

Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3840 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 521mm x 293mm
   1920x1080     60.00*+  59.94    50.00    60.00    50.04  
   1680x1050     59.95  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1280x960      60.00  
   1280x720      60.00    59.94    50.00  
   1024x768      75.03    70.07    60.00  
   800x600       75.00    72.19    60.32    56.25  
   720x576       50.00  
   720x480       59.94  
   640x480       75.00    72.81    59.94    59.93  
DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 connected 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 597mm x 336mm
   1920x1080    165.00*+ 120.28    60.00    59.94    50.00    23.98  
   1680x1050     59.95  
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1280x720      59.94    50.00  
   1152x864      75.00  
   1024x768      75.03    70.07    60.00  
   800x600       75.00    72.19    60.32  
   720x576       50.00  
   720x480       59.94  
   640x480       75.00    72.81    59.94    59.93  
DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-5 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

It is definitely being detected, so this must be a configuration issue.

Ropid

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Registered: 2015-03-09

Posts: 1,069

Re: DisplayPort monitor not working correctly?

Did you perhaps in the past use 'nvidia-xconfig' or 'nvidia-settings' to create an xorg.conf file? If you did, maybe that file is breaking things.

Last edited by Ropid (2019-03-25 00:54:02)

machinegod420

Member

Registered: 2015-01-05

Posts: 28

Re: DisplayPort monitor not working correctly?

Did you perhaps in the past use 'nvidia-xconfig' or 'nvidia-settings' to create an xorg.conf file? If you did, maybe that file is breaking things.

I have no xorg.conf file.