I am trying to get a second monitor to work on my new HP Omen/Ubuntu 16.04, so I can work properly on my laptop. I'm relatively new to Ubuntu and I've tried several of the things suggested in similar topics, but none of them worked so far (unfortunately I didn't document the things I tried well enough, but I do remember trying different versions of the open source nvidia drivers, as well as the proprietary drivers, I also tried using xconf, but couldn't find a proper explanation on how to do it and got stuck). I have the following outputs.
lspci -v
:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 591b (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
DeviceName: Intel Kabylake HD Graphics GT2
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 8259
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 133
Memory at b2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at 5000 [size=64]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915_bpo
Kernel modules: i915_bpo
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1c8c (rev a1)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 8259
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 255
Memory at b3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at a0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at 4000 [disabled] [size=128]
Expansion ROM at b4000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_384_drm, nvidia_384
sudo lshw -C display
:
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: 3D controller
product: NVIDIA Corporation
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:b3000000-b3ffffff memory:a0000000-afffffff memory:b0000000-b1ffffff ioport:4000(size=128) memory:b4000000-b407ffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 04
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915_bpo latency=0
resources: irq:133 memory:b2000000-b2ffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:5000(size=64)
xrandr
:
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
eDP1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm
1920x1080 60.06*+ 59.93 40.04
1680x1050 59.95 59.88
1600x1024 60.17
1400x1050 59.98
1600x900 60.00
1280x1024 60.02
1440x900 59.89
1280x960 60.00
1368x768 60.00
1360x768 59.80 59.96
1152x864 60.00
1280x720 60.00
1024x768 60.00
1024x576 60.00
960x540 60.00
800x600 60.32 56.25
864x486 60.00
640x480 59.94
720x405 60.00
640x360 60.00
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
In all cases I run these commands while the HDMI cable is plugged in and the second monitor is on, if that matters somehow. I'd be happy to dive deep and learn about the nuts and bolts if someone could point me in the right direction.