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max1991 10-19-2018 05:20 AM
HDMI not working when using intel graphics card - Linux Mint 19 - Dell G5 15 5587
 
Hello, I have been searching through this forum (and others) fore somebody with my same problem and after failing to find it, I am posting this (usually the solution is always found in this web page ;) ). I am thinking of updating the kernel to the 4.18 (I read that is the latest stable release), as my computer is quite new and I read through the kernel changelogs of the 4.17 (mint uses 4.16) that there has been an improvement over HDMI 2.0 cannon lake, and my computer uses HDMI 2.0, but I am not understanding how to manually upgrade the kernel nor if it is a good idea.

I have a new laptop, the Dell G5 15 5587, uses the GTX1060. I cannot get information anywhere on the internet about the intel graphics card, but I think it was the 630. It has the i7 88750H. I paste above the output of
Code:
lspci -vvv
:

Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 3ec4 (rev 07)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0825
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Skylake PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00004fff
        Memory behind bridge: e8000000-eb0fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000c0000000-00000000cfffffff
        Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
        BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
                PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 3e9b (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0825
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 128
        Region 0: Memory at ec000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Region 2: Memory at 80000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Region 4: I/O ports at 5000 [size=64]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915

00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Skylake Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 07)
        Subsystem: Dell Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
        Region 0: Memory at ed310000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: proc_thermal
        Kernel modules: processor_thermal_device

00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Skylake Gaussian Mixture Model
        Subsystem: Dell Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model
        Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: Memory at ed32c000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:12.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device a379 (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0825
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
        Region 0: Memory at ed32b000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: intel_pch_thermal
        Kernel modules: intel_pch_thermal

00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device a36d (rev 10) (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0825
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 125
        Region 0: Memory at ed300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd

00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Device a36f (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0825
        Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Region 0: Memory at ed322000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8K]
        Region 2: Memory at ed32a000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device a370 (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 4030
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
        Region 0: Memory at ed31c000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
        Kernel modules: iwlwifi

00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Device a368 (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0825
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
        Region 0: Memory at 7e800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
        Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci

00:15.1 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Device a369 (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0825
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 17
        Region 0: Memory at 7e801000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
        Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci

00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device a360 (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0825
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 140
        Region 0: Memory at ed327000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: mei_me
        Kernel modules: mei_me

00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device a353 (rev 10) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0825
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 126
        Region 0: Memory at ed320000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Region 1: Memory at ed326000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Region 2: I/O ports at 5090 [size=8]
        Region 3: I/O ports at 5080 [size=4]
        Region 4: I/O ports at 5060 [size=32]
        Region 5: Memory at ed325000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: ahci
        Kernel modules: ahci

00:1b.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device a32c (rev f0) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 122
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=3a, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 00006000-00006fff
        Memory behind bridge: d0000000-e60fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000090000000-00000000b1ffffff
        Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
        BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
                PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device a330 (rev f0) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 123
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=3b, subordinate=3b, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-00000fff
        Memory behind bridge: ed200000-ed2fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fff00000-00000000000fffff
        Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
        BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
                PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1d.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device a335 (rev f0) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 124
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=3c, subordinate=3c, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
        Memory behind bridge: ed100000-ed1fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fff00000-00000000000fffff
        Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
        BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
                PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device a30d (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0825
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0

00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device a348 (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0825
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 32, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 155
        Region 0: Memory at ed318000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Region 4: Memory at ed000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device a323 (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0825
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: Memory at ed324000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Region 4: I/O ports at efa0 [size=32]
        Kernel modules: i2c_i801

00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Device a324 (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0825
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Region 0: Memory at fe010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Dell GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile]
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Region 1: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Region 3: Memory at e8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
        Region 5: I/O ports at 4000 [disabled] [size=128]
        Expansion ROM at eb000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 17
        Region 0: Memory at eb080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

3b:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0113 (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [NVM Express])
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
        NUMA node: 0
        Region 0: Memory at ed200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: nvme
        Kernel modules: nvme

3c:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Dell Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
        Region 0: Memory at ed100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
        Region 2: I/O ports at 3000 [size=128]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: alx
        Kernel modules: alx
Code:
uname -a
Code:
Linux erik-G5-5587 4.15.0-36-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 24 16:19:09 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
and
Code:
xrandr
Code:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
eDP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm
  1920x1080    60.02 +  60.01*  59.97    59.96    59.93    48.03 
  1680x1050    59.95    59.88 
  1600x1024    60.17 
  1400x1050    59.98 
  1600x900      59.99    59.94    59.95    59.82 
  1280x1024    60.02 
  1440x900      59.89 
  1400x900      59.96    59.88 
  1280x960      60.00 
  1440x810      60.00    59.97 
  1368x768      59.88    59.85 
  1360x768      59.80    59.96 
  1280x800      59.99    59.97    59.81    59.91 
  1152x864      60.00 
  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 
  800x512      60.17 
  700x525      59.98 
  800x450      59.95    59.82 
  640x512      60.02 
  720x450      59.89 
  700x450      59.96    59.88 
  640x480      60.00    59.94 
  720x405      59.51    58.99 
  684x384      59.88    59.85 
  680x384      59.80    59.96 
  640x400      59.88    59.98 
  576x432      60.06 
  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)
DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Thank you in advance for the help and sorry if I am forgetting to give some information... It is hard to love linux so much while being a complete newbie!

max1991 10-19-2018 07:21 AM
Update : I have upgraded the kernel to 4.18.15-041815-generic and the problem persists

mrmazda 10-21-2018 03:38 AM
According to https://ark.intel.com/products/13487...p-to-4-00-GHz- you do have Intel 630, but when you have both Intel and NVidia gfx it's called Optimus. Optimus requires special driver configuration, of which one is Bumblebee. You may not need an updated kernel if you haven't configured for having Optimus hardware. What is the output from
Code:
sudo inxi -Gxx

max1991 10-21-2018 07:18 AM
Here it is
Quote:
Graphics: Card-1: Intel Device 3e9b bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b
Card-2: NVIDIA GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile]
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1c20
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.6
drivers: modesetting,nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1060 with Max-Q Design/PCIe/SSE2
version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.77 Direct Render: Yes
I think my problem "is not a problem"... I've tried a clean windows installation with all drivers except for nvidia ones, and I didn't manage to detect my monitor. However after installing nvidia drivers, it automatically detected de monitor when plugged in, and it activated the nvidia gpu. So I think this is just how this PC works... So in absence of other opinions, I think this thread is solved except for one last question. żDo you think it is a bad design? I think it is and I am thinking of returning the back this laptop...

mrmazda 10-21-2018 07:54 AM
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Originally Posted by max1991 (Post 5917447)
Do you think it is a bad design? I think it is and I am thinking of returning the back this laptop...
I think it is bad for an Optimus user not to install drivers according to dual GPU instructions, which causes higher power consumption always and thus significantly less battery life.

dave67 11-16-2018 07:17 PM
HDMI not working when using intel graphics card - Linux Mint 19 - Dell G5 15 5587
 
I own a Thinkpad T520 with a duel GPU Nvidia basically Optimus. After researching this I want into the BIOS and disabled the Nvidia GPU. Optimus is not really supported in linux that well. If you got Optimus running as soon as you update the kernel it will break Optimus.

Linux I think will never have drivers like Windows does due to manufacturers not taking Linux seriously as an alternative for windows.


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