Hi everyone. I upgraded yesterday my HP Pavilion from Fedora 29 to 30. Everything went wonderfully, thank you all. I have a second monitor attached to it via HDMI. All run perfectly and when I came back I realized the laptop's screen was gray with the fedora logo on it. It is there but I can't use it, like it is not part of the desktop. In the GNOME settings I do not see any other screen than the monitor. Did not give much thought to it, and went to sleep. This morning, I disconnected the second monitor to see if booting only with its own monitor would do something and no... gray screen again. The grub screens appear on the laptops monitor but the login screen is on the external monitor. I also tried the NVIDIA X server settings where both screens were earlier and there is only one screen listed :-( Can anyone help me out to make the laptop's monitor work again?
Thank you in advance Ester
On Fri, 10 May 2019 07:24:02 +0300 Ester Muñoz memunoz@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone. I upgraded yesterday my HP Pavilion from Fedora 29 to 30. Everything went wonderfully, thank you all. I have a second monitor attached to it via HDMI. All run perfectly and when I came back I realized the laptop's screen was gray with the fedora logo on it. It is there but I can't use it, like it is not part of the desktop. In the GNOME settings I do not see any other screen than the monitor. Did not give much thought to it, and went to sleep. This morning, I disconnected the second monitor to see if booting only with its own monitor would do something and no... gray screen again. The grub screens appear on the laptops monitor but the login screen is on the external monitor. I also tried the NVIDIA X server settings where both screens were earlier and there is only one screen listed :-( Can anyone help me out to make the laptop's monitor work again?
I don't have any direct knowledge of this problem, but it sounds like the built in monitor is not being recognized on boot. You could look at the last boot in the journal using journalctl -b in a terminal to see what happens to the built in monitor during boot. Type /drm and hit enter to take you to the video setup. Report any error back here.
Is it possible that you are missing the driver for the built-in graphics? This would especially apply if the graphics are nvidia and using the nvidia proprietary driver. Maybe you need to set up the rpmfusion repositories to get the new drivers, then do a system update.
Thank you stan I investigated a bit more and the laptop's screen is on but black. If I change to a tty using CTRL + ALT + Fn, it will show in the laptop's screen. It's only the graphical environment that does not show up. Nvidia is installed and updated. I tested that already. The Nvidia configuration GUI only sees the external monitor. I'll send the information about the commands in a little while. I might need to reinstall f29 today after all, as I cannot make this work and tomorrow I have to leave for a work trip and need my laptop working.
Thanks again, Ester
El sáb., 11 may. 2019 21:20, stan via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org escribió:
On Fri, 10 May 2019 07:24:02 +0300 Ester Muñoz memunoz@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone. I upgraded yesterday my HP Pavilion from Fedora 29 to 30. Everything went wonderfully, thank you all. I have a second monitor attached to it via HDMI. All run perfectly and when I came back I realized the laptop's screen was gray with the fedora logo on it. It is there but I can't use it, like it is not part of the desktop. In the GNOME settings I do not see any other screen than the monitor. Did not give much thought to it, and went to sleep. This morning, I disconnected the second monitor to see if booting only with its own monitor would do something and no... gray screen again. The grub screens appear on the laptops monitor but the login screen is on the external monitor. I also tried the NVIDIA X server settings where both screens were earlier and there is only one screen listed :-( Can anyone help me out to make the laptop's monitor work again?
I don't have any direct knowledge of this problem, but it sounds like the built in monitor is not being recognized on boot. You could look at the last boot in the journal using journalctl -b in a terminal to see what happens to the built in monitor during boot. Type /drm and hit enter to take you to the video setup. Report any error back here.
Is it possible that you are missing the driver for the built-in graphics? This would especially apply if the graphics are nvidia and using the nvidia proprietary driver. Maybe you need to set up the rpmfusion repositories to get the new drivers, then do a system update. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
On Sun, 12 May 2019 08:37:27 +0300 Ester Muñoz memunoz@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you stan I investigated a bit more and the laptop's screen is on but black. If I change to a tty using CTRL + ALT + Fn, it will show in the laptop's screen. It's only the graphical environment that does not show up. Nvidia is installed and updated. I tested that already. The Nvidia configuration GUI only sees the external monitor.
Are both graphics cards Nvidia?
I'll send the information about the commands in a little while. I might need to reinstall f29 today after all, as I cannot make this work and tomorrow I have to leave for a work trip and need my laptop working.
From your description the OS recognizes the monitor, so it sounds like a problem in Gnome. Are you using the default wayland in Gnome? If so, have you tried X? Or vice versa.
You could try another desktop, but I agree that if you need the laptop in the short term you are better off re-installing F29 until this is resolved. Unless someone else here recognizes the problem and gives you a quick fix.
It won't be me since my lack of familiarity with both Gnome and dual monitor setup has me floundering. I think there has to be a setting that was changed during the upgrade, but I have no idea where to look for that.
You could also try asking for help on the new askfedora site, https://ask.fedoraproject.org/c/english
Sorry for the delay and thanks. I'll answer in between:
El dom, 12 de may 2019 a las 5:50 PM, stan upaitag@zoho.com escribió:
On Sun, 12 May 2019 08:37:27 +0300 Ester Muñoz memunoz@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you stan I investigated a bit more and the laptop's screen is on but black. If I change to a tty using CTRL + ALT + Fn, it will show in the laptop's screen. It's only the graphical environment that does not show up. Nvidia is installed and updated. I tested that already. The Nvidia configuration GUI only sees the external monitor.
Are both graphics cards Nvidia?
No, one intel (can't remember the model) and on nvidia (GeForce GTX)
I'll send the information about the commands in a little while. I might need to reinstall f29 today after all, as I cannot make this work and tomorrow I have to leave for a work trip and need my laptop working.
From your description the OS recognizes the monitor, so it sounds like a problem in Gnome. Are you using the default wayland in Gnome? If so, have you tried X? Or vice versa.
I am using X, according to the information I found, NVidia drivers do not play nice with Wayland.
You could try another desktop, but I agree that if you need the laptop in the short term you are better off re-installing F29 until this is resolved. Unless someone else here recognizes the problem and gives you a quick fix.
Not sure another desktop would fix it. It happens before I log in.
It won't be me since my lack of familiarity with both Gnome and dual monitor setup has me floundering. I think there has to be a setting that was changed during the upgrade, but I have no idea where to look for that.
You could also try asking for help on the new askfedora site, https://ask.fedoraproject.org/c/english
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