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Vertical screen not working properly (EndeavourOS) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Digester@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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https://streamable.com/ku7jug

I tried switching to Linux on my main PC (cause I'm bored and I have an extra SSD to waste). Like the video shows, I can't seem to get my left vertical monitor to properly configure on this OS. It's completely broken. I can't interact with anything on main monitor once I apply the settings as shown in the video.

The only way it works is if I keep my left monitor in horizontal position.

Google didn't help and apparently it seems to be a common problem. It's on me for choosing a broken distro but I kinda like it otherwise. I'd rather find a fix the screen problem.

I'm using an Nvidia 3070.

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[–] lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's not Endeavour's fault (or Arch), if you're new to Linux, and you're running Nvidia, you're probably on X11. You can check this by running nvidia-settings in the terminal. You can see if you're running an X server (I think you're using Xfce, which is the default DE for Endeavour iirc). If that is the case, then you're on X11. In nvidia-settings, you can then configure the monitors, it's a bit fiddly, but I'm running (on X11 with Nvidia) two monitors with a left vertical monitor, at different refresh rates even, and it works.

Also, make sure you have the Nvidia drivers, and not nouveau.

[–] Digester@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I tried Endeavour on i3 exclusively earlier and I was able to set up the monitor correctly by editing the config with vim. I think the problem was when I reinstalled it using xfce, the drivers I automatically got from

nvidia-inst

Didn't work right so I had to find an alternative source. Now everything functions perfectly.

[–] adonis@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

that's an nvidia issue for sure. When I had my nvidia laptop, I had nothing but issues with it.

However... you need to install the nvidia drivers and nvidia-settings. There you can configure the monitors and it should work as expected.

edit:

It’s on me for choosing a broken distro but I kinda like it otherwise

There's nothing broken with EndeavourOS. I've had it for a long time and it served me well

[–] Digester@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I fixed it, somehow the drivers I got from running

nvidia-inst

Showed some incompatibility, I restored the OS and installed the drivers from a difference source

What's strange was the fact that many other users reported the same problems but they weren't able to find a fix, even when using alternative drivers.

[–] adonis@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

what other source did you use? If you mean, you downloaded the drivers from nvidia website, etc... pls don't do that.

the goto-way on Linux is to always use the package manager, simce this makes it easier to keep everything up to date.

If however, you did use pacman, than that's all fine. nvidia-inst is just a wrapper for some other things that need to be taken care of.

Also, nvidia is known to be troublesome on Linux, so it always needs some manual intervention here and there.

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