I had desire for a light laptop, so purchased an Alienware 13. I am currently unable to display on the external monitor, leaving me with the small 13" display. I am ignorant of how to proceed. I assume the Nouveau driver is being used, but am not sure. I it Intel or Nouveau? When I boot the following appears in dmesg: nouveau: detected PR support, will not use DSM nouveau 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007) nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown chipset (136000a1) nouveau: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -12 If I do an lsmod | nouveau i get: 101:nouveau 1691648 0 103:mxm_wmi 16384 1 nouveau 104:i2c_algo_bit 16384 2 i915,nouveau 107:drm_kms_helper 167936 2 i915,nouveau 111:ttm 110592 1 nouveau 117:drm 397312 6 ttm,i915,drm_kms_helper,nouveau 118:wmi 16384 3 dell_wmi,mxm_wmi,nouveau 119:video 45056 3 i915,dell_wmi,nouveau 120:button 16384 2 i915,nouveau This shows the nouveau driver and the Intel i915 driver. Which is running the display, and how can I control it? The device from lspci is: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile] (rev a1) Please advise if there is a path available. Don
GP106 is supported, you must be using an older kernel (since yours says "unknown chipset"). Note that mobile chips, esp GP10x's, appear to have a ton of issues with runtime pm, so YMMV. On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 7:37 PM, don fisher <hdf3 at comcast.net> wrote:> I had desire for a light laptop, so purchased an Alienware 13. I am > currently unable to display on the external monitor, leaving me with the > small 13" display. I am ignorant of how to proceed. I assume the Nouveau > driver is being used, but am not sure. I it Intel or Nouveau? When I boot > the following appears in dmesg: > nouveau: detected PR support, will not use DSM > nouveau 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007) > nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown chipset (136000a1) > nouveau: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -12 > > If I do an lsmod | nouveau i get: > 101:nouveau 1691648 0 > 103:mxm_wmi 16384 1 nouveau > 104:i2c_algo_bit 16384 2 i915,nouveau > 107:drm_kms_helper 167936 2 i915,nouveau > 111:ttm 110592 1 nouveau > 117:drm 397312 6 ttm,i915,drm_kms_helper,nouveau > 118:wmi 16384 3 dell_wmi,mxm_wmi,nouveau > 119:video 45056 3 i915,dell_wmi,nouveau > 120:button 16384 2 i915,nouveau > > This shows the nouveau driver and the Intel i915 driver. Which is running > the display, and how can I control it? > > The device from lspci is: > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106M [GeForce GTX > 1060 Mobile] (rev a1) > > Please advise if there is a path available. > > Don > _______________________________________________ > Nouveau mailing list > Nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
Any idea what the proper kernel version would be. Opensuse is always behind. Don On 08/04/2018 04:37 PM, don fisher wrote:> I had desire for a light laptop, so purchased an Alienware 13. I am > currently unable to display on the external monitor, leaving me with the > small 13" display. I am ignorant of how to proceed. I assume the Nouveau > driver is being used, but am not sure. I it Intel or Nouveau? When I > boot the following appears in dmesg: > nouveau: detected PR support, will not use DSM > nouveau 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007) > nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown chipset (136000a1) > nouveau: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -12 > > If I do an lsmod | nouveau i get: > 101:nouveau 1691648 0 > 103:mxm_wmi 16384 1 nouveau > 104:i2c_algo_bit 16384 2 i915,nouveau > 107:drm_kms_helper 167936 2 i915,nouveau > 111:ttm 110592 1 nouveau > 117:drm 397312 6 ttm,i915,drm_kms_helper,nouveau > 118:wmi 16384 3 dell_wmi,mxm_wmi,nouveau > 119:video 45056 3 i915,dell_wmi,nouveau > 120:button 16384 2 i915,nouveau > > This shows the nouveau driver and the Intel i915 driver. Which is > running the display, and how can I control it? > > The device from lspci is: > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106M [GeForce > GTX 1060 Mobile] (rev a1) > > Please advise if there is a path available. > > Don > _______________________________________________ > Nouveau mailing list > Nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau