<SOLVED> Second Monitor detected but no picture

linuxwilson · Post by **linuxwilson** » Wed Jan 19, 2022 9:15 pm

EDIT I switched from a DisplayPort cable to a DVI cable for my second monitor and that resolved the issue of the second monitor not displaying the picture but was detected.

Second Monitor is a Samsung S24E50 for reference

Hi guys,

I recently connected a generic second monitor to my new Linux build.

My primary monitor displays great picture with an HDMI cable while, the second monitor is connected through a display port , it'll cycle through options on the monitor but it will never display the picture.

I do use this monitor and the cable for my work computer and it does display picture.

I do have the nvidia driver installed for my graphic card.

Unsure of how to remedy the solution.

Thanks for taking a looking at this post.

Edited for additional clarity,
Linux Mint x64 on Xfce Edition

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System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-96-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.20 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 
  dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P8P67 PRO REV 3.1 v: Rev 1.xx 
  serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 0105 date: 03/28/2011 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-2500K bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
  flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 26486 
  Speed: 1605 MHz min/max: 1600/3700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1605 2: 1605 
  3: 1605 4: 1605 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 3GB] vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: nvidia v: 470.86 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c02 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa 
  resolution: 1920x1080~240Hz, 1024x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB/PCIe/SSE2 
  v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.86 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio 
  vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  chip ID: 8086:1c20 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:10f1 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-96-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579V Gigabit Network vendor: ASUSTeK P8P67 Deluxe 
  driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: f040 bus ID: 00:19.0 chip ID: 8086:1503 
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR3011 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb 
  bus ID: 2-1.7:3 chip ID: 0cf3:3005 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 16.59 GiB (7.0%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Intel model: SSDSC2KW256G8 size: 238.47 GiB 
  speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 002C scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 209.84 GiB used: 16.57 GiB (7.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 23.32 GiB used: 19.5 MiB (0.1%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda4 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 49 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0% 

Info:
  Processes: 224 Uptime: 7m Memory: 7.75 GiB used: 2.04 GiB (26.3%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.0.38