Marius Nestor We do, they just need to be approved by a moderator first because, you know, they might be spam.

I thought, that comment would be pending forever plus one day (as on hvg dot hu.ĪlmaLinux OS 8.5 Released with New Repositories and SCAP Profiles, Updated Components You Can Now Install KDE Plasma 5.23 on Kubuntu 21.10, Here’s How For that, you’ll need to run the glxinfo | egrep 'OpenGL vendor|OpenGL renderer' in a terminal emulator.Ĭommand 'snap' not found, but can be installed with: Now, take a look to see what GPU is your laptop using by default. So if your laptop’s dedicated GPU is an NVIDIA GPU, make sure you have the NVIDIA proprietary graphics drivers installed (you probably already have them, but just to be sure). The solution is quite very simple, enabling the dedicated GPU as the primary graphics card. This is the case for me, as my laptop comes with AMD Renoir and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti graphics.

The issue appears to happen on hybrid laptops that have an integrated graphics card, either from AMD or Intel, and a dedicated GPU, usually from NVIDIA. I mean, the external monitor is recognized correctly and all that, but it says there’s “no signal” from the HDMI cable. The fact is that it actually works, sort of. Every Linux distro out there should work out of the box when connecting it to an external monitor. In the next paragraphs, I’m gonna show you how to properly connect your laptop to an external monitor, and the instructions should work on any Linux distro.įirst, let me tell you that this should not happen at all. So if you’re like me, you’ve arrived at right place. I spent many hours reading these reports and the solutions offered by other users, but with no success.

I have recently replaced my old laptop with a new one that’s also great for gaming, so if I want to connect it to an external monitor via HDMI it doesn’t work out-of-the-box with any Linux distro that I’ve tried so far, and if you search the Web for an answer you’ll find numerous reports from users having a so-called “No Signal” issue. A simple tutorial to show you how easy is to connect your laptop to an external monitor through an HDMI cable on any Linux distro if you want to use a second screen for gaming or whatnot, which fixes the notorious “no signal” issue.

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