The problem
I've got two graphics cards in my computer:
- Nvidia GTX 580
- Intel Graphics (onboard)
The Nvidia part is working fine: plugged in a DVI cable to my monitor and everything works perfectly. The Intel part is totally ignored. xrandr
says it is disconnected, and even tty
is not visible at the Intel/HDMI display.
When having xf86-video-intel
installed, my monitor says no signal
, if it is uninstalled, it says 1024-768 connected
with a black screen. (completely black, no tty
)
Information
I am using Arch Linux
.
After installing xf86-video-intel
I also added to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
the i915
tag in the MODULES
line:
MODULES="i915"
Calling uname -r
gives me:
3.14.25-1-lts
Calling lscpi -v
gives me (among other things):
00:02.0 Display controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 0122
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45
Memory at f7400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at f000 [size=64]
Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
Calling xrandr
gives me:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192
DVI-I-1 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 518mm x 324mm
1920x1200 59.95*+
1600x1200 60.00
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1280x960 60.00
1152x864 75.00
1024x768 75.08 70.07 60.00
832x624 74.55
800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
640x480 75.00 72.81 66.67 60.00
720x400 70.08
DVI-I-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Possible causes which are not the cause
- The cable is not the problem. It runs perfectly fine booting on Windows.