[Touch-packages] [Bug 1871721] Re: Second Monitor on HDMI blank screen with Nvidia & Ubuntu 20.04? (ASUS Laptop)

2020-06-01 Thread Nhlaluko
In my case I had to sacrifice battery life. Is your NVIDIA card the default, not ondemand. It must be the default one. My HDMI is wired through the nvidia gpu, so if it's off or low powered it doesn't show on second display. If your nvidia is the default and is up and running, then i'm out. and

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1871721] Re: Second Monitor on HDMI blank screen with Nvidia & Ubuntu 20.04? (ASUS Laptop)

2020-06-01 Thread Nhlaluko
I've been struggling with this all day. My solution (on Ubuntu 20.04) is to downgrade to nvidia driver 435. Change gdm3 to lightdm. In that exact order apt install nvidia-driver-435 apt install --reinstall lightdm ubuntu-desktop The bug is in driver 440. Also confirmed this in Arch Linux as