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OK, so I discovered that the layout saved by arandr works just fine as long as the Display app is not open when it is run.

To recap, applying the solution in the MX Forum thread I linked above, on the 6.3 kernel woks.

The magic conf files:

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
Section "Device ...

OK, so I just noticed that, although arandr couldn't reapply the layout after hotplugging, the Display app could (note that on the 6.0 kernel neither arandr nor Display app could get the monitor going again after hotplug).

So I've commented out all but optirun intel-virtual-output in my autostart ...

OK, so here has what I tried:


purge nVidia drivers
full system upgrade
install linux-6.3.0 and headers
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf to .bak similarly /usr/share/X11...
reboot (sanity check if free drivers work)
can not detect HDMI at all
installed nVidia driver
reboot - still no ...

Thanks CharlesV.

Do you have Optimus system with Bumblebee? Did you do anything to get it working or does it just work out-of-the-box for you?

Hi all, thanks for all your contributions to such a stable and current OS!

I am working with a friend's Dell XPS laptop to help him get his nVidia GT525M working.

I will paste the usual stats tomorrow when I can get another chance to power it up.

In the mean time, I'd just like to get the ball ...

Ok I seem to have bumbled my way to fixing it.

Turns out that the dkms module was failing to build - hence why the packages were not installed.

So it looks like the nvidia driver script is fine, it's just I got my packages into a weird state so the installer was failing to install the correct ...

The error message is saying that the 418.74 "nvidia-driver" was installed instead of the correct legacy-340xx driver. Can you copy and rename the /var/log/ddm.log file to ddm.txt and attach it to a message here, so we can see what happened with the installer? It's supposed to install the correct ...

Here is my relevant system info.

I didn't post it initially because it didn't seem relevant and could just be TMI. But here it is in any case.

A working gfx config (using a very basic xorg.conf with just the Driver specified):

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1 ...

Hi all,

The proprietary driver installed via the nvidia driver installer is not compatible with the 8400 GS according to the Xorg log: Xorg.0.log

With some searching I found this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/739577/how-to-enable-use-nvidia-geforce-8400-gs

The claim is that the 340.108 ...

Yep congrats on getting there but

cat /usr/lib/modprobe.d/no-mode-set.conf

I would have thought I might have this raw file.....to be copied into /lib/modprobe.d/
but I have no such file on MX19 hd install.

It may be that some script is being called to generate the raw file before putting a ...