Dual monitors worked on Live USB, but not on full install (Dell U2419HX)

vasiliospavlos

stylste uh...like....reboot and use the Live USB in a non-UEFI environment?

stylste

yes

vasiliospavlos

output appears to be the same

Smart Log for NVME device:nvme0n1 namespace-id:ffffffff critical_warning : 0 temperature : 45 C available_spare : 100% available_spare_threshold : 10% percentage_used : 0% data_units_read : 17,312 data_units_written : 2,058,962 host_read_commands : 241,954 host_write_commands : 2,122,446 controller_busy_time : 14 power_cycles : 24 power_on_hours : 1 unsafe_shutdowns : 10 media_errors : 0 num_err_log_entries : 34 Warning Temperature Time : 0 Critical Composite Temperature Time : 0 Temperature Sensor 1 : 45 C Temperature Sensor 2 : 54 C Thermal Management T1 Trans Count : 0 Thermal Management T2 Trans Count : 0 Thermal Management T1 Total Time : 0 Thermal Management T2 Total Time : 0

stylste

Ok.
Try wipping once more

vasiliospavlos

same output as last time:
dd: error writing '/dev/nvme0n1': No space left on device 953870+0 records in 953869+0 records out 1000204886016 bytes (1.0 TB, 932 GiB) copied, 759.482 s, 1.3 GB/s

I'm trying to understand exactly what this is doing, so let me break it down, tell me where I'm wrong.

I'm formatting an empty drive that's never had anything but 2 previous installations of Solus on it in order to get properly load the amdgpu drivers so two monitors will display. And now this brand new Samsung EVO 970 is broken? Which is why we're checking using nvme?

stylste

How did you formated your disk earlier?

Justin

vasiliospavlos Are you using the full disk install option? If not, use that.

vasiliospavlos

Justin I believe I am -- I will double check when I run the install again tomorrow.

@stylste GPT, I believe. The option that says "2TB and over" IIRC.

vasiliospavlos

@Justin and @stylste alright, I'm back!

I selected "automatically partition this empty disk and install a fresh copy of Solus"
I checked "use LVM in the new installation and did not check encryption
I enter the name of the computer
"Install a bootloader" is checked (with the SSD selected)

Going through the install (again, time #3). Let's see what happens I guess.

vasiliospavlos

@Justin @stylste

Update: no change. When I boot into Solus, the displays turn off. I have to ctrl + alt + f2 to get to tty, reboot, and set nomodeset to get in to the OS. Monitor is still 'unknown' and doesn't recognize there are two of them plugged in, despite the fact it works fine on Live USB.

I don't expect it to "just work", but days just trying to get a monitor working by formatting a hard drive is starting to make me feel a little insane, lol. There's got to be something easy I'm missing.

Justin

vasiliospavlos Sorry I am lost for how to troubleshoot further. Hopefully others with better knowledge of this can help.

stylste

vasiliospavlos I don't expect it to "just work", but days just trying to get a monitor working by formatting a hard drive is starting to make me feel a little insane, lol. There's got to be something easy I'm missing.

What is easy for me might be hard for others and propably make them feel insane.
I might have had the same problem as you but i don't feel like stay awake at 3AM.
Good luck.

vasiliospavlos

Justin Hey, I really appreciate you trying to help me! If you happen to wake up in a cold sweat at 3AM with the idea, let me know.

For now I'm just going to have to go back to Windows 🙁

vasiliospavlos

stylste

Hey, I appreciate you helping! It matters quite a lot!

I found that there may be some issues with the driver not supporting DP on the 580 (Ellesmere), so, I'm going to try HDMI tonight.

vasiliospavlos

TO ANYONE WHO READS THIS IN THE FUTURE

DisplayPort was not supported for my RX 580 at the time of this post. Blame whoever you want. I switched to HDMI and it resolved all of my issues. No black screen, no need to get to tty, no need to do nomodeset.

I'm up and running!

Huge shoutouts to @stylste @Justin and @DataDrake and everyone on /r/solus, /r/linux, and /r/linux4noobs

Justin

vasiliospavlos Great to hear, I was actually going to talk to you last night (before I went to sleep) but forgot about things I saw in the AMD GPU driver commits thinking that maybe there was an issue but at least you got it sorted and can try DP down the line as updates come in.

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