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Bazzite won't display to my external monitor (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello there.

I’m a newbie to Linux and am still figuring everything out. I posted here a few days ago and you fine folks helped me with a problem. Now I’m in need again.

I decided to distro hop a little bit just to see what I like best, and am currently testing out Bazzite since I mostly use my PC for gaming at the moment and heard that one’s a good one for gaming. I’m using a laptop hooked up to an external monitor right now. After installing Bazzite I was asked what I wanted to do with the external monitor. Since I never use my laptop screen, I chose the option to only display on the external monitor. Unfortunately that didn’t seem to play nice, and now my laptop screen is black (obviously) but the external monitor is saying no input anymore. It accepted the input up until making that choice. Now I can unplug the monitor and use the laptop screen just fine, but my setup makes that quite annoying, plus I want to use my monitor obviously. The biggest problem is I can’t adjust the monitor settings without the monitor plugged in, and I can’t see anything with the monitor plugged in. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem? I’ve never faced it before in my years of using windows, and I didn’t have this problem in Mint either. I don’t really want to reinstall, but I will if I have to. If anyone knows of a solution without reinstalling I’d appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This fixed it. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Awesome! If you experiment with different resolutions and the screen doesn't turn on again, wait 15 seconds. Without confirmation, plasma will restore the previous resolution on its own.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm impressed with your tech support skills!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Haha thanks, I guess being the family tech support does help practice!