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Re: Two Screens. One nit displaYinG.

From pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.mint
Subject Re: Two Screens. One nit displaYinG.
Date 2026-05-16 15:52 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <20260516155255.8e24e499e8985c0ddd1ba275@gmail.com> (permalink)
References <20260516110239.fc5d37df037fea446522e924@gmail.com> <10u9j8q$to5r$1@dont-email.me>

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On Sat, 16 May 2026 07:09:14 -0400
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

> On Sat, 5/16/2026 6:02 AM, pinnerite wrote:
> > 
> > What had been working reliably after new cables attached, suddenly
> > dropped its right-hand screen.
> > 
> > But when I boot on a Mint live flash-drive, both screens come up.
> > So far I cannot seem to get it going again.
> > 
> > The Display driver only sees one screen.
> > 
> > I have an AMD graphics card. No Nvidia.
> > 
> > 
> > :( Alan
> 
> This command is a complement to what you see in the display panel.
> 
>    xrandr -q
> 
> bullwinkle@PROGRESS:~$ xrandr -q
> Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 32767 x 32767
> DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> HDMI-0 connected primary 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 338mm x 270mm
>    1280x1024     60.02*+  75.02
>    1280x720      60.00    59.94
>    1152x864      75.00
>    1024x768      75.03    70.07    60.00
>    800x600       75.00    72.19    60.32    56.25
>    640x480       75.00    72.81    59.94
> DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> DP-4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> DP-5 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> 
> (Card has HDMI, DP,DP,DP, DVI-D. HDMI to VGA adapter driving one 1280x1024 VGA LCD monitor. )
> 

$ xrandr --verbose
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 4096 x 4096
None-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (0x41) normal (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
	Identifier: 0x3f
	Timestamp:  7539
	Subpixel:   unknown
	Gamma:      1.0:1.0:1.0
	Brightness: 1.0
	Clones:    
	CRTC:       0
	CRTCs:      0
	Transform:  1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
	            0.000000 1.000000 0.000000
	            0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
	           filter: 
	link-status: Good 
		supported: Good, Bad
	CONNECTOR_ID: 35 
		supported: 35
	non-desktop: 0 
		range: (0, 1)
  1920x1080 (0x41) 124.416MHz *current +preferred
        h: width  1920 start 1920 end 1920 total 1920 skew    0 clock  64.80KHz
        v: height 1080 start 1080 end 1080 total 1080           clock  60.00Hz
$



> There are also some EDID commands ("readedid"), for dumping the EDID over the interface
> on each display cable. HDMI/DP/VGA/DVI have EDID, signals with names like SDA,SCK.
> The video card send SDA,SCK and the monitor reads back its EEPROM of stuff.
> Some poorly prepared monitors did not have a write-protect on
> their EDID EEPROM and could be (accidentally) modified. With
> various humorous results.
> 
> It is the reading of the EDID on my 20 year old LCD monitor, that
> results in the six lines of resolution choices. XRandr then, also
> has to read the EDID to get that info.
> 
> If you are using a KVM, that is another source of surprises
> when it comes to monitor detection.
> 
>    Paul
> 


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