Hello there.
I’m a newbie to Linux and am still figuring everything out. I posted here a few days ago and you fine folks helped me with a problem. Now I’m in need again.
I decided to distro hop a little bit just to see what I like best, and am currently testing out Bazzite since I mostly use my PC for gaming at the moment and heard that one’s a good one for gaming. I’m using a laptop hooked up to an external monitor right now. After installing Bazzite I was asked what I wanted to do with the external monitor. Since I never use my laptop screen, I chose the option to only display on the external monitor. Unfortunately that didn’t seem to play nice, and now my laptop screen is black (obviously) but the external monitor is saying no input anymore. It accepted the input up until making that choice. Now I can unplug the monitor and use the laptop screen just fine, but my setup makes that quite annoying, plus I want to use my monitor obviously. The biggest problem is I can’t adjust the monitor settings without the monitor plugged in, and I can’t see anything with the monitor plugged in. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem? I’ve never faced it before in my years of using windows, and I didn’t have this problem in Mint either. I don’t really want to reinstall, but I will if I have to. If anyone knows of a solution without reinstalling I’d appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
I just tried Super+P and did manage to get it to show on my laptop, but I still can’t get the image to show on the monitor. I tried hooking up my laptop to my tv and there were no issues. My monitor doesn’t have any issues with windows or mint either, just bazzite for some reason. And it didn’t have an issue when I was first installing it either.
Since you’re now able to see the laptop screen with the monitor connected, try changing the monitor’s resolution and refresh rate to a lower value. Plasma should hide options which are incompatible with your monitor, but maybe it’s not doing that for you. (right click on the desktop and choose “display settings”)
This fixed it. Thank you!
Awesome! If you experiment with different resolutions and the screen doesn’t turn on again, wait 15 seconds. Without confirmation, plasma will restore the previous resolution on its own.
I’m impressed with your tech support skills!
Haha thanks, I guess being the family tech support does help practice!
Does the monitor turn on from standby when you plug the cable in? If the monitor has other ports, try those as well.