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reexe

No picture when booting with dock after screen upgrade on x250

Question / Problem

Hi.
I have upgraded my x250 screen to a 00HN899, and it works fine if I use the laptop without my dock and external screen. However if I have it in the dock when starting it works in the BIOS and GRUB, but as soon as Manjaro is supposed to display the login screen everything is just black. This happens even on a Live USB.

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To get everything to work I have to boot to Manjaro outside the dock, then connect it to the dock and my second monitor (3440x1440@60hz), after that sleep mode and everything works fine and both the internal screen and external monitor will turn on and off as they should until i completely turn off the laptop again, then I will have to redo this whole process.

B4 I upgraded from my TN panel I did not have this problem.

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Anyone knows of a solution? I have already tried changing the BIOS settings to 512mb gpu memory and tried to use the dock as the start display.

Edit: I fixed it by changing to display port from the dock instead of hdmi, maybe the high resolution of the external monitor on the older hdmi protocol together with my higher internal resolution messed something up at boot.

Posted Sep 10, 2020, 1:09 PM UTC · edited

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WesterdutchW530, X230, Helix, X201, T400, T61, T60p, T60, T41...•

Have you checked behavior in windows? Sounds a lot like a linux issue.

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reexeOP•

Don't have a windows install and not interested in installing it, I would have thought it was something with my Linux install unless I had the same thing happening on a Live usb

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WesterdutchW530, X230, Helix, X201, T400, T61, T60p, T60, T41...•

If that live usb is also linux then you're not really excluding that as a potential issue.

In that case might want to boot the machine in the dock, wait for things to go wrong and ssh into it to see where exactly the machine thinks its outputting to. Or do the usual, start digging in logs.

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reexeOP•

Linux in itself is not the issue, if the panel is not compatible with Linux then it's a crap panel, I bought my x250 as a Linux machine so I have no intention on installing windows. I may try other Linux kernels and or distros.

I just wondered if anyone have experienced this issue b4 and maybe had a solution.

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WesterdutchW530, X230, Helix, X201, T400, T61, T60p, T60, T41...•

no intention on installing windows

It would just be for diagnostic purposes to help narrow down the issue.

other Linux kernels

That would be your best bet.

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reexeOP•

This sounds like a similar problem and a possible solution reddit

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