(all: Let me know if I should open a bug) Am Montag, 5. August 2019, 18:34:17 CEST schrieb Markus Feilner:
Hi James,
great to hear from you! And thanks for helping...
Unfortunately I don't have a .config/monitors* file or directory. *still searching*. but I will try to start from scratch again. On my system, already the framebuffer (during boot) doesn't even show logo or console on the third screen if I am booting kernel 5.2 - that's way before userspace configuration, am I wrong? And also same error with startX from a root shell (I know), which I did to find out if it was some kind of permission problem. It wasn't.
I'll do a quick boot into the 5.2 kernel to catch the xranrd error message...
Which I did. After a lot of flickering (on laptop and screen 1) and with identical config, screen 2 is black, can't be activated by settings tools. KDE's monitor tool denies to activate DP-2-2, but does not return an error. # ~> xrandr --listmonitors Monitors: 2 0: +eDP-1 1920/293x1080/162+0+0 eDP-1 1: +DP-2-1 1920/598x1080/336+1920+0 DP-2-1 # ~> xrandr --listactivemonitors Monitors: 2 0: +eDP-1 1920/293x1080/162+0+0 eDP-1 1: +DP-2-1 1920/598x1080/336+1920+0 DP-2-1 # ~> xrandr --output eDP-1 --mode "1920x1080" --output DP-2-1 --mode "1920x1080" --left-of eDP-1 --output DP-2-2 --mode "1920x1080" --primary -- left-of DP-2-1 xrandr: Configure crtc 2 failed # ~> At first time the last command crashed the laptop, only a hard reset (~5+ seconds power button press) helped. Now I can run it without crashing, and flickering is gone (?), but screen 2-2 stays black. Attached is the last Xlog: Does anybody have a clue what these entries might mean? ... 10.172] (EE) modeset(0): failed to set mode: No space left on device ... 206.711] (EE) modeset(0): failed to set mode: No space left on device ... 404.244] (EE) modeset(0): failed to set mode: No space left on device ... they are created when I try to set the screens. /me searches on. Thanks !
Am Montag, 5. August 2019, 18:13:57 CEST schrieb James Mason:
Hi Markus,
On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 17:50 +0200, Markus Feilner wrote:
Hi, just wondering if I am the only one where the upgrade to kernel 5.2 series last week broke the monitor setup. I am using two external screens (ACER, HD)
at a Dell Docking station with a recent Dell laptop (Core I7, Intel
Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (Whiskey Lake) ). Has been working fine with triple monitor setup (laptop screen + two screens at dock, mini-DP and HDMI). Updates to kernel 5.2 (at least the ones last week, after July 30 broke that. One screen fails to start, I cannot activate it, xrandr throws an error.
My external monitor setup failed as well, but I've come to expect that. For me, removing the multimonitor config, and starting from scratch usually resolves the issue:
rm ~/.config/monitors.xml*
The few times that hasn't helped, I've been glad of the option to rollback ;-)
For technical reference, I'm using a company-issued Dell E7450 laptop; here's the hardware loadout: https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/servicetag/brmw 46 2/overview
- James Mason
I installed kernel 5.1.16 from history repo, and things work again, but (as
happens to that kernel, I assume) bluetooth is broken. Guess I have
to choose at boot time what I want... :-)
Just wondering: Is this a problem someone else has, too or just my setup? Haven't found anything on mailing lists, not in bugzilla or elsewhere. And I
don't get any confirmation for my opensuse support mailing list
subscription - but I don't need support here, not yet. Other laptops with docks and triple monitor setups are not affected - might be in the grafics driver, I assume, with my limited knowledge...
that's the kernel that works: #:~> inxi CPU: Quad Core Intel Core i7-8565U (-MT MCP-) speed/min/max: 600/400/4600 MHz
Kernel: 5.1.16-1.g2af8a22-default x86_64
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