No HDMI on lenovo laptop

[Dane Goodwin]

Hey all

It's new laptop time. i got a lenovo legion y540 with the nvidia RTX graphics card, and got qubes installed on it. Everything works great except HDMI output. I want to fill in an HCL submission, but want to try get this sorted before doing so.

The problem I'm having is the neither the HDMI or mini display port work. The XFCE display manager app has the tickbox: "Configure new displays when connected" which causes a dialog to show when you plug in a new display to let you set it up how you like. With that option selected, when I plug in an HDMI cable, the dialog pops up, and the monitor goes black showing that it's expecting a signal, but XFCE doesn't detect the second display, and nothing shows on the screen.

I'm probably far off with this, so I welcome corrections, but what I _think_ is happening is the display ports are wired through the nivida graphics card, so both the laptop and monitor detect when a cable is connected, but the display doesn't work because I haven't installed the nvidia graphics drivers.

Before trying to install the drivers, I wanted to ask the group. Have any of you experienced something similar to this? Is there a way to fix it without installing the nvidia drivers?

[Claudia]

Dane Goodwin:

Just guessing here...

Have you tried a different window manager such as KDE or i3?

Did you check for relevant settings in BIOS?

Does it work correctly under vanilla Fedora 25, Fedora 30, or any other
OS? (You can try it in a live CD)

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Hallo Dane

Would you be so kind and explain how did you manage to boot with your laptop.
I have exactly the same model.
Nvidia 1650 6gb.

I tried to install qubes many time but same problem over and over. Black screen after install.

Whats about GPU pass? Can you play any Steam game?

Wrong section to ask, but I do not know how to send PM.

Can you make some totorial? Few command lines, or so.

Thank you.

tnx

[DavidDTU]

Hello Dane,

I have Lenovo Legion Y530. I did not try installing Qubes yet, but want to.

Any information that could help this installation process that you may gathered or compiled yourself would be much appreciated at this stage.

Thank you so much.


Regards,
D.