System:
Kernel: 5.11.15-arch1-2 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux
root=UUID=aebe8e8e-69aa-45ea-934e-08a59eb0555f rw quiet
resume=UUID=b999acec-e7da-483e-8ab0-d27d37eb6bfc loglevel=3 nowatchdog
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X550LD v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X550LD v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
BIOS: American Megatrends v: X550LD.307 date: 06/26/2014
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 46.9 Wh (93.8%) condition: 50.0/65.1 Wh (76.7%)
volts: 14.8 min: 14.8 model: ASUSTeK X550A30 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: Discharging cycles: 226
CPU:
Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7-4510U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Haswell family: 6 model-id: 45 (69) stepping: 1 microcode: 26
cache: L2: 4 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 20763
Speed: 1391 MHz min/max: 800/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1391
2: 924 3: 1154 4: 1998
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 and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB:
conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0a16
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT
620M/625M/630M/720M]
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nouveau v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1140 class-ID: 0302
Device-3: Realtek USB Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-5:3
chip-ID: 0bda:57b4 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: intel,modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa alternate: nouveau,nv
resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:0a0c
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Intel 8 Series HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:9c20
class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.11.15-arch1-2 running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.25 running: no
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel modules: r8168 port: e000
bus-ID: 02:00.1 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp2s0f1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n vendor: Lite-On driver: wl
v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4365 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-3: Realtek RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter
type: USB driver: r8188eu bus-ID: 2-2:8 chip-ID: 0bda:8179
class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
IF: wlan1 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Lite-On Broadcom BCM43142A0 Bluetooth Device type: USB
driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 2-6:5 chip-ID: 04ca:2006 class-ID: fe01
serial: <filter>
Report: This feature requires one of these tools: hciconfig/bt-adapter
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 6.69 GiB (1.4%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 00WD scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 453.02 GiB size: 444.84 GiB (98.19%)
used: 6.69 GiB (1.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 12.74 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2100
Info:
Processes: 167 Uptime: 10m wakeups: 6 Memory: 11.58 GiB
used: 1.09 GiB (9.4%) Init: systemd v: 248 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 949 lib: 219 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.03
[alex@alex-x550ld ~]$
Ok so is the menu showing now?
@ricklinux you have more experience than what I do, so I guess you could look at that terminal output 
Yes, in the laptop screen, which means everytime I want to see it on the monitor, I need to open and close the lid which is a hassle as I put many light objects on top of the screen when its closed and I’m using the monitor
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Oooh! So is everything fine on the laptop?
What does inxi -Ga show?
In a restart, the menu wouldn’t show until I played with the switch to laptop screen, switch to external screen several times and it finally came back.
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0a16
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT
620M/625M/630M/720M]
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nouveau v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1140 class-ID: 0302
Device-3: Realtek USB Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-5:5
chip-ID: 0bda:57b4 class-ID: 0e02 serial: 200901010001
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: intel,modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa alternate: nouveau,nv
resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Can you install the following as it will show a lot more indormation
sudo pacman -S mesa-demos
sudo pacman -S dmidecode
sudo pacman -S xorg-xdpyinfo
Then run inxi -Ga again
Not sure it worked, it went very fast, maybe the mirros need changing. here are the results.
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0a16
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT
620M/625M/630M/720M]
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nouveau v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1140 class-ID: 0302
Device-3: Realtek USB Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-5:5
chip-ID: 0bda:57b4 class-ID: 0e02 serial: 200901010001
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: intel,modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa alternate: nouveau,nv
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 506x285mm (19.9x11.2")
s-diag: 581mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: HDMI1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 92
size: 530x300mm (20.9x11.8") diag: 609mm (24")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2)
v: 4.5 Mesa 21.0.2 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
This is good as it gives you all the info regarding Graphics. It’s a hybrid graphics with Intel and Nvidia. It’s running on Nouveau open source for the Nvidia.
So my question is you said you have it hooked up to another monitor?
Yes, I am now working through the monitor, the laptop lid is closed.
Okay so it may be switching from Intel to the open source nouveau to run off the monitor. What happens when you leave the laptop lid open always. Do you have the same issue?
Yes. I need to paly around with the button for monitors, choose external, the laptop screen several times until the menu shows.
Can you check if this is installed
pacman -Qi xf86-video-intel
Name : xf86-video-intel
Version : 1:2.99.917+916+g31486f40-1
Description : X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://01.org/linuxgraphics
Licenses : custom
Groups : xorg-drivers
Provides : xf86-video-intel-uxa xf86-video-intel-sna
Depends On : mesa libxvmc pixman xcb-util>=0.3.9 systemd-libs
Optional Deps : libxrandr: for intel-virtual-output [installed]
libxinerama: for intel-virtual-output [installed]
libxcursor: for intel-virtual-output [installed]
libxtst: for intel-virtual-output [installed]
libxss: for intel-virtual-output [installed]
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : xorg-server<1.20 X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION<24
X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION>=25 xf86-video-intel-sna
xf86-video-intel-uxa xf86-video-i810
xf86-video-intel-legacy
Replaces : xf86-video-intel-uxa xf86-video-intel-sna
Installed Size : 2,16 MiB
Packager : Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Σαβ 16 Ιαν 2021 12:35:32 μμ EET
Install Date : Κυρ 18 Απρ 2021 04:27:44 μμ EEST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By : Signature
A lot of people uninstall that file because it isn’t needed and you run off of the kernel module. Most don’t have any issues uninstalling it and it’s actually recommended but i can’t guarantee you won’t have a black screen when rebooting so you’d have to try it.
Also check if there is anything listed under MODULES=
cat /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
I forgot where KDE has the option to show all files.
ok got it. Cant find folder cat
Not sure what you are looking for but under Dolphin it’s view show hidden files.