I’ve noticed that my secondary monitor usually doesn’t turn on initially. In order to get it to turn on, I can do a restart after the initial boot and then it will turn on. Any idea what might be causing this or how to fix it? The monitor is hooked up through the laptop’s hdmi port.
Fedora 42
KDE Plasma
Wayland
Nvidia RTX 4070
It does have it’s own power button. When shutting down, the monitor does stay on for a few seconds with the ‘no signal’ message, but then turns off (the LED power indicator goes from blue to orange).
I don’t have another computer to test it with at the moment.
I can try booting with just the software rendering, but I’m not sure how to do this in Fedora. In Pop os, there were options under the power menu to choose graphics settings. Fedora seems to handle this automatically(?)
Here’s how to disable the GPU drivers:
Remove “nomodeset” from the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX variable in /etc/default/grub
Add “rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau” to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX instead
Run
sudo update-grubthen rebootNote: This only works if you’re using the open-source drivers, known as Nouveau. If you’re using the proprietary drivers, this will not work.
To check if you’re using Nouveau or the proprietary drivers, run
lspciand check for “NVIDIA”, then runlsmodand check for Nouveau.Remember to change it back when you want to re-enable the NVIDIA drivers.
(PS: I used this website as a source, their procedure is more complicated.)