How do i connect an external monitor to laptop with a freshly installed Arch

[rough kindle]

Ive freshly installed Arch in my laptop and now wish to connect an external monitor with my laptop and I have no idea on how to, can anyone help me with this. Thanks in advance

[whole fern]

xrandr

but i don’t know what exactly you have to input

.aw xrandr

[dense mirage]

Arch Wiki: Xrandr

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xrandr

[whole fern]

but i think if you plug a external monitor, it will automatically show your laptop screen simultaneously

[rough kindle]

no its not showing

is that because of the adapter i am using ?

It converts hdmi to vgi coz my monitor has only vgi port

how do i use xrandr to look for available displays ?

the --listmonitors showing only one monitor

[unborn yoke]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Multihead

[dull sentinel]

check if your laptop is referenced somewhere on the archwiki, there may be something there

[snow whale]

ok

uhhh

gimmie one sec

[rough kindle]

thanks :)

[old galleon]

@rough kindle try installing lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia lib32-libvdpau lib32-nvidia-cg-toolkit

[old galleon]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhh do you have multilib repository enabled?

[snow whale]

run

pacman -Syu

rq

then try again

[rough kindle]

Ive just freshly installed my arch :')

[snow whale]

yea run -Syu

[old galleon]

what do you get here when you run -Syu

[rough kindle]

wait a min, its still downloading

[snow whale]

lspci | grep -i vga

what does this output

oh u need multilib repo i guess

[old galleon]

yeah you dont have the multilib repository enabled

[snow whale]

get me that output rq tho

[snow whale]

oke

[rough kindle]

its still downloading :')

[snow whale]

no worries lol just wanted the one u sent a sec ago

[rough kindle]

what is rq ?

how do i get the output you require ?

[snow whale]

rq = real quick

[rough kindle]

smDh :')

[snow whale]

heeh

[old galleon]

yeah so enable multilib and try installing the packages i sent u

also does the monitor show up in the nvidia x server settings

[snow whale]

ok

so

plug in your monitor, turn it on to whatever it should be piocking up on

and then run xrandr and send output

and since ur nvidia

also run n send output for this

/usr/lib/nvidia-current/bin/nvidia-xconfig --query-gpu-info --nvidia-cfg-path=/usr/lib/nvidia-current

[snow whale]

and the monitor still isnt recognizing?

well

showing output

here run this

xrandr --listactivemonitors

n lemme see

[rough kindle]

no such directory

[snow whale]

thats fine

run the latest command

[rough kindle]

also there is no /nvidia-current

only nvidia

[snow whale]

all good

[snow whale]

run this

[snow whale]

oh that might be specific to the other package then but we'll come back to that if need be

[snow whale]

huh

do

--listmonitors

no active

[rough kindle]

but KDE is detecting it

[snow whale]

mmm

yea

holld up

[rough kindle]

:')

[snow whale]

d this

do this

xrandr --output HDMI-1-0 --mode 1920x1080

any luck w that?

[rough kindle]

installed all

hey based on my research ive seen that, the main display is connected to my integrated gpu and the ports are connected to my discrete nvidia gpu

ig if thats the problem

[snow whale]

wait

i fucking forgot

yea

hold on

[rough kindle]

: )

[snow whale]

so

do you care to have both on

or are u fine w running just the nvidia

[rough kindle]

if both is possible then the former

or else i am just fine with nvidia

[snow whale]

ok so

im not a pro so i can only try and help w just nvidia working

but

[rough kindle]

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/optimus-manager how to install this

[rough kindle]

yeah i just want my monitor to work

[snow whale]

u gotta download package and build

or use paru/yay

[rough kindle]

command ?

[snow whale]

look em up

but

follow these instructions

https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/450.66/README/randr14.html#outputsource

just the first one for "PRIME"

not reverse prime

and follow this

[rough kindle]

shall i just replace intel with amd everywhere ?

[snow whale]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#DRM_kernel_mode_setting

[rough kindle]

does this do the same thing as the optimus-manager ?

[snow whale]

i dont know what optimus-manager does

you can try that first if you want

[rough kindle]

yeah wait

[snow whale]

mmm apparently instead of all that

you can just run nvidia-xconfig --prime

anyways ping me with logs if that doesnt work, ima go back to doin work

[rough kindle]

ok ok brb

heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

optimus manager works

got my screen working

Ill use nvidia alone whenever i use my monitor then

Thank you so much y'all 🙏

[snow whale]

nice np

[rough kindle]

thank you 🙏

[snow whale]