Storytime:
I have been using the Acer SB220Q monitor for a couple years now as an additional display for my HP Pavilion gaming laptop. Its maximum supported resolution is 1080p at 75 Hz.
When I first switched to Linux (first Manjaro, and now Endeavour OS, both with KDE), I was able to use the 1080p75 setting on my monitor with no inherent issues. However, after a recent update (specifically one I applied on May 14th), my monitor now only displays “Input Not Supported” when I set it to display 1080p75. Though, the screen resolution still changes, so I can move my mouse over and interact with windows unseen to me. However, the monitor can display anything below that setting, both for resolution or refresh rate, including 1080p60, 1050p75, 900p75, and so on.
I am using an NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti Mobile with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers. I’m not sure which update caused this issue (probably the NVIDIA drivers or Linux kernel, but I can’t be sure), and am wondering if anyone else with an NVIDIA card has similar issues with the same or different monitor, as well as how it could be fixed. I should mention that I dual boot Windows 11 on this laptop, and 1080p75 works fine on that installation.
My inxi -Fazy:
System:
Kernel: 5.18.1-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux
root=UUID=d394ca26-cf4e-441f-811c-58ab0c780669 rw rootflags=subvol=@
cryptdevice=UUID=60513ba7-f282-4199-aea3-d12d4151126a:luks-60513ba7-f282-4199-aea3-d12d4151126a
root=/dev/mapper/luks-60513ba7-f282-4199-aea3-d12d4151126a loglevel=3
nowatchdog nvme_load=YES
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.4 info: latte-dock
wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15-cx0xxx
v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 8478 v: 70.60 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
v: F.26 date: 08/10/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 56.3 Wh (100.0%) condition: 56.3/52.2 Wh (107.9%)
volts: 12.1 min: 11.6 model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: full
Device-1: sony_controller_battery_1c:a0:b8:9d:aa:f0 model: N/A serial: N/A
charge: N/A status: full
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-8300H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake
family: 6 model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xA (10) microcode: 0xF0
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 802 high: 814 min/max: 800/4000 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 802 4: 803
5: 800 6: 800 7: 814 8: 803 bogomips: 36812
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile]
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nvidia v: 515.43.04
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 515.xx+
status: current (as of 2022-05) arch: Pascal pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-2 empty: none bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1c8c class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-2.1:6 chip-ID: 046d:082d
class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Device-4: AVerMedia Live Gamer MINI type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-2.2:11 chip-ID: 07ca:3311
class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Device-5: Quanta HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-5:8 chip-ID: 0408:5300 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting,nvidia gpu: i915,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1013x285mm (39.88x11.22")
s-diag: 1052mm (41.43")
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-2 mapped: HDMI-0 note: disabled pos: primary,left
model: Acer SB220Q serial: <filter> built: 2019 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 102
gamma: 1.2 size: 476x268mm (18.74x10.55") diag: 546mm (21.5") ratio: 16:9
modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
Monitor-2: eDP-1 mapped: eDP-1-1 pos: right model: BOE Display 0x07a1
built: 2016 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2
size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9
modes: 1920x1080
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 515.43.04 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fb9 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Sony DualShock 4 [CUH-ZCT2x] type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,sony,usbhid bus-ID: 1-1.1:4 chip-ID: 054c:09cc
class-ID: 0300
Device-4: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-2.1:6 chip-ID: 046d:082d
class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Device-5: AVerMedia Live Gamer MINI type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-2.2:11 chip-ID: 07ca:3311
class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Device-6: JMTek LLC. USB PnP Audio Device type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-2.3:12 chip-ID: 0c76:161e
class-ID: 0300
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.18.1-arch1-1 running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:a370 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) type: USB
driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:10 chip-ID: 8087:0aaa class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: disabled
rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 709.84 GiB used: 332.75 GiB (46.9%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 250GB size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 2B2QEXM7 temp: 43.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 PRO 256GB
size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 4B6Q scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: JMicron Tech model: N/A
size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B type: N/A
serial: <filter> rev: 0504 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 232.59 GiB size: 232.59 GiB (100.00%)
used: 144.59 GiB (62.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-60513ba7-f282-4199-aea3-d12d4151126a
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 724 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 232.59 GiB size: 232.59 GiB (100.00%)
used: 144.59 GiB (62.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-60513ba7-f282-4199-aea3-d12d4151126a
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 232.59 GiB size: 232.59 GiB (100.00%)
used: 144.59 GiB (62.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-60513ba7-f282-4199-aea3-d12d4151126a
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
file: /swap/swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 63.0 C pch: 59.0 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia
temp: 52 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 327 Uptime: 39m wakeups: 2 Memory: 15.52 GiB
used: 4.7 GiB (30.3%) Init: systemd v: 251 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 12.1.0 Packages: 1455 pacman: 1441 lib: 421 flatpak: 14 Shell: Bash
v: 5.1.16 running-in: alacritty inxi: 3.3.16