Manjaro doesn't detect iGPU display when using GPU.

[Cyberspirit]

Hey, I installed Manjaro yesterday and, I've been setting it up ever since but, for the life of me I can't figure out how to enable my second monitor that's hooked up to the iGPU.

I've looked around everywhere but, most people who had this issue used laptops and a program called "Bumblebee" solved the issue for them but it doesn't work with desktops.

 

Can someone help me with this?

 

Not sure what kind of info is needed to troubleshoot something like this I'm sorry. New to the Linux experience.

[wasab]

There is no dual graphics for desktop. It's either delicated or integrated. 

[Cyberspirit]

5 hours ago, wasab said:

There is no dual graphics for desktop. It's either delicated or integrated. 

So, is there no way to make it work in Manjaro? 

It worked just fine in every other Distro I've tried so far. 

[Willowwizard]

14 hours ago, wasab said:

There is no dual graphics for desktop. It's either delicated or integrated. 

That's not true, I'm on a desktop right now and I have both my iGPU and a dedicated GPU installed, they're getting along quite nicely

 

On 8/26/2018 at 9:05 AM, Cyberspirit said:

Hey, I installed Manjaro yesterday and, I've been setting it up ever since but, for the life of me I can't figure out how to enable my second monitor that's hooked up to the iGPU.

I've looked around everywhere but, most people who had this issue used laptops and a program called "Bumblebee" solved the issue for them but it doesn't work with desktops.

 

Can someone help me with this?

 

Not sure what kind of info is needed to troubleshoot something like this I'm sorry. New to the Linux experience.

Bumblebee also works for desktops, some aspects of it won't work however. (e.g. I can't use 'bbswitch' to fully power down my discrete graphics).

 

Are you using the proprietary nvidia driver or the built-in open source nouveau driver?

You can do this by searching for the nvidia package, i.e. sudo pacman -Qs nvidia ; if you have it installed it will output something similar to

local/nvidia 396.54-2
    NVIDIA drivers for linux

if not, you're using nouveau.

 

Also, can you post the output of xrandr ?

[Cyberspirit]

7 hours ago, TakataruMC said:

That's not true, I'm on a desktop right now and I have both my iGPU and a dedicated GPU installed, they're getting along quite nicely

 

Bumblebee also works for desktops, some aspects of it won't work however. (e.g. I can't use 'bbswitch' to fully power down my discrete graphics).

 

Are you using the proprietary nvidia driver or the built-in open source nouveau driver?

You can do this by searching for the nvidia package, i.e. sudo pacman -Qs nvidia ; if you have it installed it will output something similar to

local/nvidia 396.54-2
    NVIDIA drivers for linux

if not, you're using nouveau.

 

Also, can you post the output of xrandr ?

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Hey, thanks for the reply. Here's what I get from the command:

$ sudo pacman -Qs nvidia ;
[sudo] password for seishin: 
local/bumblebee 3.2.1-20
    NVIDIA Optimus support for Linux through Primus/VirtualGL
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 1:396.54-2
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libvdpau 1.1.1+3+ga21bf7a-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/linux414-nvidia 1:396.54-2 (linux414-extramodules)
    NVIDIA drivers for linux.
local/linux418-nvidia 1:396.54-1 (linux418-extramodules)
    NVIDIA drivers for linux.
local/mhwd-nvidia 1:396.54-1
    MHWD module-ids for nvidia 396.54
local/mhwd-nvidia-340xx 340.107-1
    MHWD module-ids for nvidia 340.107
local/mhwd-nvidia-390xx 390.77-1
    MHWD module-ids for nvidia 390.77
local/nvidia-utils 1:396.54-2
    NVIDIA drivers utilities

Here's a screenshot of my video drivers just in case.

Spoiler

 

I did install Bumblebee before but, I couldn't figure out how to use it.

 

Here's what I get from Arandr:

$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 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) 527mm x 296mm
   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 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
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)

My main monitor is connected to the GPU with HDMI and, my secondary (which isn't detected at all) is connected to the iGPU via D-Sub.

Sadly my secondary screen only has D-Sub so I can't connect it to my graphics card.

[Willowwizard]

Hmm, it does appear like you have the proper drivers installed; but the xrandr output doesn't seem to even detect there being a VGA/D-sub connection

 

You might need to manually add your intel card to your Xorg configuration.

First, you have to look at the output of $ lspci, which will look similar to this

Quote

[username@hostname ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/Ivy Bridge DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (Lewisville) (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a4)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation C216 Series Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 3GB] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

The part that's in bold is the relevant part.

Then, you have to add a new file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

sudo nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Note: I use nano here because it's an easy terminal-based text editor, if you want to however you can substitute $ nano -w with any terminal-based text editor of your choice, although keep in mind you may have to use sudoedit to use a graphical text editor.

e.g. If you want to use kate, do $ SUDO_EDITOR=kate sudoedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf instead

 

Next, write this to the file:

Quote

Section "Device"
  Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
  Driver "intel"
  BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

The bold part should be the value of the previously bolded part in the output of lspci. Note, however, that the leading zeroes are removed, and the period/full-stop mark is replaced with a colon.

 

Also note the driver name "intel", it's "intel" if you have the Intel DDX driver installed ($ sudo pacman -Qs xf86-video-intel), however if you don't have it installed, you'll have to replace "intel" with "modesetting".

 

Reboot and see if the OS detects the iGPU output this time.

(Just in case, you might wanna install and enable ssh just in case the computer fails to detect any video output at all, here's a short one-liner to do that

$ sudo pacman --noconfirm -S openssh && sudo systemctl enable sshd )

[Cyberspirit]

@TakataruMC Hey seems like my iGPU is detected but not as a "VGA compatible controller" but as

"Display controller" and sadly it doesn't work.

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 07)
00:02.0 Display controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 31)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H CSME HECI #1 (rev 31)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H SATA controller [AHCI mode] (rev 31)
00:1b.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Root Port #17 (rev f1)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev f1)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev f1)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H LPC Controller (rev 31)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PMC (rev 31)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H HD Audio (rev 31)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H SMBus (rev 31)
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V (rev 31)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1142 USB 3.1 Host Controller
04:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI Bridge (rev 04)

What OS do you use? So far I like Manjaro the most but, it's the only one that doesn't seem to support multi-monitors. (At least not in my case for some reason)

[Willowwizard]

5 hours ago, Cyberspirit said:

@TakataruMC Hey seems like my iGPU is detected but not as a "VGA compatible controller" but as

"Display controller" and sadly it doesn't work.

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 07)
00:02.0 Display controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 31)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H CSME HECI #1 (rev 31)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H SATA controller [AHCI mode] (rev 31)
00:1b.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Root Port #17 (rev f1)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev f1)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev f1)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H LPC Controller (rev 31)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PMC (rev 31)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H HD Audio (rev 31)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H SMBus (rev 31)
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V (rev 31)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1142 USB 3.1 Host Controller
04:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI Bridge (rev 04)

What OS do you use? So far I like Manjaro the most but, it's the only one that doesn't seem to support multi-monitors. (At least not in my case for some reason)

 

I use Arch Linux but Manjaro is basically a derivative of that, so I'm not sure if that would fix the issue

 

The display adapter being recognized as "Display controller" shouldn't really affect anything, I guess it's just different for the newer chipset

Can you make sure that you don't have any vga= or nomodeset kernel parameters? Since you're using Manjaro I'm assuming you're using GRUB, the configuration file for GRUB is in /etc/default/grub , open it with a text editor as root and find the line that looks like GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="parameters rw quiet etc".

 

Inside those quotation marks there shouldn't be any parameters that look like vga=0x31b or nomodeset. if there are, remove them and re-generate your GRUB configuration file with sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg . Also once you do that, add the 20-intel.conf file back and reboot, then check xrandr and KDE's Display settings to see if a monitor is detected)

[Cyberspirit]

9 hours ago, TakataruMC said:

 

I use Arch Linux but Manjaro is basically a derivative of that, so I'm not sure if that would fix the issue

 

The display adapter being recognized as "Display controller" shouldn't really affect anything, I guess it's just different for the newer chipset

Can you make sure that you don't have any vga= or nomodeset kernel parameters? Since you're using Manjaro I'm assuming you're using GRUB, the configuration file for GRUB is in /etc/default/grub , open it with a text editor as root and find the line that looks like GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="parameters rw quiet etc".

 

Inside those quotation marks there shouldn't be any parameters that look like vga=0x31b or nomodeset. if there are, remove them and re-generate your GRUB configuration file with sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg . Also once you do that, add the 20-intel.conf file back and reboot, then check xrandr and KDE's Display settings to see if a monitor is detected)

Okay so, even after doing all that I still can't get it to show up but, interestingly enough when I boot from the live CD the secondary display shows up just fine (as DP-5) and works flawlessly.

So, now I'm even more confused. I think I'll try to reinstall the whole thing and see if that fixes it.

 

Alright, I figured it out. So I reinstalled Manjaro with the driver option "free" instead of the "nonfree" and both my monitors work now.

When I unplug my secondary display from the iGPU it turns off so, that should mean that it uses that and not some virtual desktop which is great.

 

In hindsight, I probably could have just disabled the Nvidia drivers and rebooted and my problem would have been solved but too late now. 

Here's my xrandr output after all this mess:

Spoiler

xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3360 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
DVI-D-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1 connected primary 1920x1080+1440+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 527mm x 296mm
   1920x1080     60.00*+  50.00    59.94  
   1920x1080i    60.00    50.00    59.94  
   1680x1050     59.88  
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1440x900      59.90  
   1280x960      60.00  
   1280x720      60.00    50.00    59.94  
   1024x768      75.03    70.07    60.00  
   832x624       74.55  
   800x600       72.19    75.00    60.32    56.25  
   720x576       50.00  
   720x480       60.00    59.94  
   640x480       75.00    72.81    66.67    60.00    59.94  
   720x400       70.08  
DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP5 connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 410mm x 260mm
   1440x900      59.89*+  74.98  
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1152x864      75.00  
   1024x768      75.03    70.07    60.00  
   832x624       74.55  
   800x600       72.19    75.00    60.32    56.25  
   640x480       75.00    72.81    66.67    59.94  
   720x400       70.08  
HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
  1280x1024 (0x4b) 135.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width  1280 start 1296 end 1440 total 1688 skew    0 clock  79.98KHz
        v: height 1024 start 1025 end 1028 total 1066           clock  75.02Hz
  1280x1024 (0x4c) 108.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width  1280 start 1328 end 1440 total 1688 skew    0 clock  63.98KHz
        v: height 1024 start 1025 end 1028 total 1066           clock  60.02Hz
  1024x768 (0x4f) 78.750MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width  1024 start 1040 end 1136 total 1312 skew    0 clock  60.02KHz
        v: height  768 start  769 end  772 total  800           clock  75.03Hz
  1024x768 (0x50) 75.000MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width  1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1328 skew    0 clock  56.48KHz
        v: height  768 start  771 end  777 total  806           clock  70.07Hz
  1024x768 (0x51) 65.000MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width  1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1344 skew    0 clock  48.36KHz
        v: height  768 start  771 end  777 total  806           clock  60.00Hz
  832x624 (0x52) 57.284MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width   832 start  864 end  928 total 1152 skew    0 clock  49.73KHz
        v: height  624 start  625 end  628 total  667           clock  74.55Hz
  800x600 (0x53) 50.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width   800 start  856 end  976 total 1040 skew    0 clock  48.08KHz
        v: height  600 start  637 end  643 total  666           clock  72.19Hz
  800x600 (0x54) 49.500MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width   800 start  816 end  896 total 1056 skew    0 clock  46.88KHz
        v: height  600 start  601 end  604 total  625           clock  75.00Hz
  800x600 (0x55) 40.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width   800 start  840 end  968 total 1056 skew    0 clock  37.88KHz
        v: height  600 start  601 end  605 total  628           clock  60.32Hz
  800x600 (0x56) 36.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width   800 start  824 end  896 total 1024 skew    0 clock  35.16KHz
        v: height  600 start  601 end  603 total  625           clock  56.25Hz
  640x480 (0x57) 31.500MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width   640 start  656 end  720 total  840 skew    0 clock  37.50KHz
        v: height  480 start  481 end  484 total  500           clock  75.00Hz
  640x480 (0x58) 31.500MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width   640 start  664 end  704 total  832 skew    0 clock  37.86KHz
        v: height  480 start  489 end  492 total  520           clock  72.81Hz
  640x480 (0x59) 30.240MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width   640 start  704 end  768 total  864 skew    0 clock  35.00KHz
        v: height  480 start  483 end  486 total  525           clock  66.67Hz
  640x480 (0x5a) 25.175MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width   640 start  656 end  752 total  800 skew    0 clock  31.47KHz
        v: height  480 start  490 end  492 total  525           clock  59.94Hz
  720x400 (0x5b) 28.320MHz -HSync +VSync
        h: width   720 start  738 end  846 total  900 skew    0 clock  31.47KHz
        v: height  400 start  412 end  414 total  449           clock  70.08Hz

 

 

Now I let's hope that I can just hook my GPU into a VM and use my iGPU for Linux. :fingerscrossed:

Edited August 28, 2018 by Cyberspirit
Fixed it