Briefly:
HP OMEN with GTX 1060
Dell dock station WD19
External monitors works fine without any video drivers (only mesa)
External monitors are visible in nvidia-settings/xrandr and remain black if activated in any way (button in nvidia settings or direct xrandr --output DP-3.1 --right-of eDP-1)
If I connect those monitors directly to a laptop they work fine with nvidia drivers. (Tommorow (18 june Moscow) I will talk to dell tech support and try to find what is different.
| | dock | no dock |
|--------|-------|---------|
| raw | OK | OK |
| nvidia | BLACK | OK |
| | | |
no,
Still does not work.
I’ve mentioned a weird thing: Monitors do not display that they are going to sleep when they are plugged into the dock station.
The default Dell WD19 is not a Thunderbolt Docking Station, so this docking station does not use PCI-E pass-through to your graphics card, but requires a USB Type-C monitor driver or similar instead.
This driver in Linux could be: typec_displayport or the displaylink driver (DisplayLink is a provider, which is used by a lot of vendors for their Docking Stations) and you might need: x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev or x11-drivers/xf86-video-displaylink.
I also suspected this could be a Displaylink device but the xorg.log shows both monitors directly connected to the nvidia gpu. So a firmware update might be something to consider first.
updated dock firmware,
DisplayLink does not show in xrandr
Nothing changes
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I am wondering
will it help if I use WD19TB station?
e.g. which protocol is wider USB Type-C or thunderbolt
will Type-C laptop still be able to connect?
Please run nvidia-bug-report.sh as root and attach the resulting nvidia-bug-report.log.gz file to your post. You will have to rename the file ending to something else since the forum software doesn’t accept .gz files (nifty!).
All dock devices properly detected and added, monitors detected but not added, weird. Looks like some incompatibility of the HP notebook.
If you find the time, you could create an xorg.conf and set
Option “ModeDebug” “true”
in the device section to maybe get some more info though chances are low.
Any progress on this issue? I’m experiencing the same problem with the WD19 docking station with NVIDIA GPU Quadro M2000M. My logs below. nvidia-bug-report.log (1.2 MB)
I noticed that I was running 435 rather than 440. I’ve upgraded to 440, and the problem persists. I’ve also included the logs from the Nouveau drivers (which does properly display to the external monitor through the WD19 dock). nvidia-bug-report_nouveau.log.gz (90.9 KB) nvidia-bug-report_nvidia-driver-440.log.gz (305.2 KB)
This bug is being tracked internally as bug 3132826.
@kelvin.mba, @yarebenko:
Please specify Option “ModeDebug” “true”, as suggested in #13, and generate new logs after reproducing the issue.
What is the output of ‘xrandr --auto’ when the monitors are connected? The current logs show that the monitor are connected and have available modes, but no modes have been set.