2nd monitor not working!

[goob]

Hello! I am recently getting into the linux space and I'm a beginner when it comes to it. I have not much of a clue to what I am doing to fix my issues. Currently my 2nd monitor will not work with nvidia drivers, when using the open sourced drivers that linux mint comes with it works perfectly fine but when using nvidias drivers it wont do anything. Desperately need answers! Trying to figure out the terminal has been a doozy.

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-101-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0
    Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
    Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MAG B550 TOMAHAWK MAX WIFI (MS-7C91)
    v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: 2.20
    date: 08/30/2022
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled
    arch: Zen 3 rev: 2 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 4 MiB L3: 32 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2197 high: 2201 min/max: 2200/3800 boost: enabled
    cores: 1: 2195 2: 2196 3: 2196 4: 2195 5: 2198 6: 2197 7: 2191 8: 2191
    9: 2201 10: 2198 11: 2199 12: 2200 13: 2199 14: 2199 15: 2200 16: 2199
    bogomips: 121612
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 2b:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1b81 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: nouveau,vesa
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting gpu: N/A display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.0x11.3")
    s-diag: 583mm (23")
  Monitor-1: default res: 1920x1080 hz: 77 size: N/A
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7 256 bits)
    v: 4.5 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 2b:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f0 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 2d:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: HP HyperX Cloud II Core Wireless type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-4:2 chip-ID: 03f0:0995
    class-ID: 0300
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-101-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: MEDIATEK MT7921K Wi-Fi 6E 80MHz driver: mt7921e v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 29:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:0608 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 2a:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp42s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: MediaTek Wireless_Device type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-9:6 chip-ID: 0e8d:0608 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>
    bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.2 sub-v: 2202 hci-v: 5.2 rev: 915
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 6.37 TiB used: 122.26 GiB (1.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD4005FZBX-00K5WB0
    size: 3.64 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
    rev: 1A01 scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM008-2FR102 size: 1.82 TiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: 0001 scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WDS100T2B0B-00YS70
    size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 20WD
    scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 1.79 TiB used: 122.25 GiB (6.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sdb1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  Message: No sensor data found. Is lm-sensors configured?
Repos:
  Packages: 2457 apt: 2434 flatpak: 23
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com virginia main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
    1: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
Info:
  Processes: 360 Uptime: 8m wakeups: 0 Memory: 31.26 GiB
  used: 1.87 GiB (6.0%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
  gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.13

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Desperately need answers!

Welcome to the forum, goob.

The short answer is you have no graphics drivers loaded. That is explained in Tips for Troubleshooting Graphics Issues (including external monitors not working) which is a sticky at the top of the Graphics Cards & Monitors forum. There is also information about Nvidia drivers there.

Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A pcie:
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 2b:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1b81 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: nouveau,vesa
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting gpu: N/A display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.0x11.3")
s-diag: 583mm (23")
Monitor-1: default res: 1920x1080 hz: 77 size: N/A
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7 256 bits)
v: 4.5 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2 direct render: Yes

The Nvidia proprietary graphics drivers are available in Driver Manager. No terminal is needed. What did you do in the terminal?

There are two steps with a proprietary Nvidia driver. The first step is using Driver Manager to install the driver. The second step is having the driver load at boot time. If you have secure boot enabled and you did not create keys (MOK) or you installed the wrong driver, then the driver will not load at boot time.

Is secure boot enabled? You can check by running the following in a terminal

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mokutil --sb-state

With an Nvidia driver installed, please provide the output of

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dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia

and enclose the results in code tags as described in this tutorial: How to use code display tags on forums.linuxmint.com

Also, for your install, I recommend using the 6.5 kernel which is available in Update Manager. You will get better performance with a 5000 series Ryzen with it.

Instructions for upgrading to the 6.5 kernel:

• Open Update Manager.
• Select View > Linux Kernels and click Continue.
• Make sure 6.5 is selected on the left panel and then click the top-most option on the right panel. An "Install" button will appear.
• Install the kernel and then reboot for it to become active.

If this is the correct link, the latest BIOS/UEFI is version 2.6 and indicates "Support new Ryzen 5000 CPU." so you may want to consider upgrading.

Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MAG B550 TOMAHAWK MAX WIFI (MS-7C91)
v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: 2.20
date: 08/30/2022