Hey guys! Does anyone have any idea why my second monitor connected through thunderbolt is suddenly not working? The monitor displays a "No signal" message, despite the cable being connected. Nvidia drivers are up-to-date, used to work until yesterday. I disconnected the cable briefly and now that I have connected it again it will not work.
#Thunderbolt connected monitor suddenly not working
zenith violet
quaint ice
Anything on dmesg when plugging/unplugging the cable?
zenith violet
Anything on dmesg when plugging/unplugging the cable?
what should I be looking for exactly?
oh ok i see
nope no output
like nothing new
last thing in there is a wifi related warning
besides that nothing
think this could be a hardware related problem?
quaint ice
Yeah nothing on dmesg is likely hardware related. Probably the cable, based on my own past experience, some of those are shit.
zenith violet
oof
quaint ice
If you can, try the cable somewhere else
zenith violet
Will do, I think I have some other cables in a drawer somewhere too, I'll try those too.
Man I hate thunderbolt
zenith violet
The laptop's solid, the monitor as well, I've had some problems in the past on other distros too and those had a mostly software related nature, albeit that should not be outruled.
I'll wait till my father gets home so I can try to see if his MacBook connects properly to the monitor
Say the cable is broken, should I buy a new one or look for an hdmi to bluetooth adapter?
It would get rid of many hassles and bluetooth seems to be working strangely well on arch for a linux distro.
quaint ice
hdmi to bluetooth? u wot
zenith violet
Apparently there's devices that you can connect through hdmi that transform your monitor into a bluetooth connectable one
zenith violet
fair
quaint ice
Also the bandwith of bluetooth is nowhere near close that of HDMI, I wonder how that works 
quaint ice
Yeah that's not bluetooth it's some proprietary mm-wave thing haha but seems pretty cool
zenith violet
oh
zenith violet
If you can, try the cable somewhere else
Ok so tested it out on a macbook and it worked
I am quite sure that it's not the laptop that's causing the problem, like the hardware itself
Driver problem, hyprland problem, something else entirely?
zenith violet
*bump*
zenith violet
xrandr --auto ``` outputs something a tad bit weird Major opcode of failed request: 140 (RANDR)
Minor opcode of failed request: 7 (RRSetScreenSize)
Serial number of failed request: 22
Current serial number in output stream: 23```the second just restarted my whole display manager XD
apparently some nvidia driver problems
trying to resolve them
zenith violet
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zenith violet
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