When using the Nouveau drivers, my laptop (Dell G5 5590) does not pick up my external HDMI monitor. It works just fine while using the nvidia drivers so it is not a cable/monitor issue, but the nvidia drivers have other bugs and so I would like to just use nouveau.
The GPU is an Nvidia GTX 1650 Mobile. I wasn't able to find it exactly in the nouveau feature matrix on their website, there seems to be no mention of mobile series, which makes it hard for me to determine if I should be expecting this to be supported at all.
When connected to the monitor with and HDMI cable and using the nouveau drivers, the external monitor does not show up in the budgie control center, nor in any command line outputs I have ran:
While HDMI cable is connected:
output of inxi -Ga
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Dell
driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: eDP-1
empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: Dell
driver: nouveau v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max:
lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-3 empty: none bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1f91 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 0c45:671f class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.14 compositor: budgie-wm driver: X:
loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915,nouveau display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142
size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.55") modes: N/A
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.7 direct render: Yes
output of xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm
1920x1080 60.06*+ 60.01 59.97 59.96 59.93 48.04
1680x1050 59.95 59.88
1400x1050 59.98
1600x900 59.99 59.94 59.95 59.82
1280x1024 60.02
1400x900 59.96 59.88
1280x960 60.00
1440x810 60.00 59.97
1368x768 59.88 59.85
1280x800 59.99 59.97 59.81 59.91
1280x720 60.00 59.99 59.86 59.74
1024x768 60.04 60.00
960x720 60.00
928x696 60.05
896x672 60.01
1024x576 59.95 59.96 59.90 59.82
960x600 59.93 60.00
960x540 59.96 59.99 59.63 59.82
800x600 60.00 60.32 56.25
840x525 60.01 59.88
864x486 59.92 59.57
700x525 59.98
800x450 59.95 59.82
640x512 60.02
700x450 59.96 59.88
640x480 60.00 59.94
720x405 59.51 58.99
684x384 59.88 59.85
640x400 59.88 59.98
640x360 59.86 59.83 59.84 59.32
512x384 60.00
512x288 60.00 59.92
480x270 59.63 59.82
400x300 60.32 56.34
432x243 59.92 59.57
320x240 60.05
360x202 59.51 59.13
320x180 59.84 59.32
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Any ideas on stuff to try to get it to detect? Thanks
