On 2/23/25 15:37, Felix Miata wrote: > Eben King composed on 2025-02-23 13:42 (UTC-0500): > >> I want to put one monitor (L, HDMI) on the onboard card (the one provided by >> the i5) and two more (M, DVI; and R, DP) on a graphics card (GTX 970). The >> card works as well as it ever did, and its two work fine. The onboard one >> is rotated. It is connected, but when I run "startx" it retains the >> sideways text and doesn't show the X desktop. The hardware's not disabled >> in the BIOS. How should I proceed? > >> I have Debian 12.9 (Bookworm), xorg something or other (not Wayland), and >> XFCE 4.18. > > Is this the same PC discussed here last August with i5-6400 and GTX 970?
It is. > are you still using the nouveau kernel driver for the GTX, or have you > switched to > using proprietary nvidia driver? I never had Nouveau on this machine. It now runs Nvidia proprietary driver v470. I tried 535, and it was the same except for the blind first login. > Please provide output from: > > lsmod | egrep 'vid|veau|915' eben@cerberus:~$ lsmod | egrep 'vid|veau|915' qrtr 49152 2 nvidia_drm 73728 5 nvidia_modeset 1204224 10 nvidia_drm i915 3055616 4 sha512_ssse3 49152 1 uvcvideo 131072 0 drm_buddy 20480 1 i915 videobuf2_vmalloc 20480 1 uvcvideo videobuf2_memops 20480 1 videobuf2_vmalloc drm_display_helper 184320 1 i915 videobuf2_v4l2 36864 1 uvcvideo videobuf2_common 73728 4 videobuf2_vmalloc,videobuf2_v4l2,uvcvideo,videobuf2_memops videodev 294912 3 videobuf2_v4l2,uvcvideo,videobuf2_common cec 61440 2 drm_display_helper,i915 mc 81920 5 videodev,snd_usb_audio,videobuf2_v4l2,uvcvideo,videobuf2_common snd_timer 49152 1 snd_pcm video 65536 2 i915,nvidia_modeset ttm 94208 1 i915 nvidia 35598336 783 nvidia_modeset wmi 36864 2 video,intel_wmi_thunderbolt drm_kms_helper 212992 3 drm_display_helper,nvidia_drm,i915 i2c_algo_bit 16384 2 igb,i915 drm 614400 15 drm_kms_helper,drm_display_helper,nvidia,drm_buddy,nvidia_drm,i915,ttm ahci 49152 12 libahci 49152 1 ahci usbcore 348160 10 xhci_hcd,snd_usb_audio,usbhid,snd_usbmidi_lib,usb_storage,uvcvideo,btusb,xhci_pci,uas usb_common 16384 3 xhci_hcd,usbcore,uvcvideo
