Fedora 20, fully updated. Asus Q500A laptop (x64, UEFI, no Secure Boot). Acer S211HL monitor. Gnome classic session is the manager. When I attempt to connect the Acer monitor to the Asus laptop through the HDMI port in a non-mirrored configuration, the laptop (primary) goes black. During this time, the Acer monitor (secondary) has a normal screen. The mouse moves between the screens. To login, I can actually use the ENTER key and everything works if I get the blind choreography correct. Sometimes the primary monitor is 100% black, while other times its 95% black. The login screen is 100% black, while post-login appears to be 95% black. When its operating in near-black mode, I can make out an extremely faint window below. During this time, I can work off the second monitor. For example, I can right-click and bring up a command prompt (nautilus-open-terminal is installed). Opening 'Display' from 'Gnome Control Center' (via command line gnome-control-center) does not help. I also noticed that 'Display' from 'Gnome Control Center' does not appear to provide a way to assign primary and secondary monitors (I wanted to try it to see if I could bring both monitors to life at once).
Created attachment 844237 [details] Picture of the broken primary disaply and working secondary display
The Asus laptop is multiboot. The other operating systems - Windows 8, Debian 7.3 and Ubuntu 13.04 - have little to no problems with the configuration. (Ubuntu has a minor problem on its login screen, where a vertical black stripe is present on the secondary display. The stripe goes away after login). Debian 7.3 and Ubuntu 13.04 appear to use a different version of Gnome Control Center.
Created attachment 844265 [details] Xorg logs in /var/log/
# uname -a Linux fedora-q500 3.12.5-302.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Dec 17 20:42:32 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux # sudo lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev c4) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev c4) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM76 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04) 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 (rev c4) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 07) # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 58 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3230M CPU @ 2.60GHz stepping : 9 microcode : 0x19 cpu MHz : 1934.359 cache size : 3072 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms bogomips : 5187.98 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 58 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3230M CPU @ 2.60GHz stepping : 9 microcode : 0x19 cpu MHz : 1583.257 cache size : 3072 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 2 initial apicid : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms bogomips : 5187.98 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 2 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 58 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3230M CPU @ 2.60GHz stepping : 9 microcode : 0x19 cpu MHz : 1768.507 cache size : 3072 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 1 initial apicid : 1 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms bogomips : 5187.98 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 3 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 58 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3230M CPU @ 2.60GHz stepping : 9 microcode : 0x19 cpu MHz : 1961.375 cache size : 3072 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 3 initial apicid : 3 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms bogomips : 5187.98 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:
$ sudo cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf [sudo] password for jwalton: cat: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory
Created attachment 844277 [details] Output of `dd if=/dev/mem of=/tmp/rom bs=64k skip=12 count=1`
Created attachment 844278 [details] Output of `cp /sys/kernel/debug/dri/*/i915_opregion /tmp/opregion`
Created attachment 844279 [details] Output of `intel_reg_snapshot > /tmp/snapshot`
Created attachment 844291 [details] Output of `xrandr --verbose > /tmp/xrandr`
After running `xev` to see if the Function and Hotkeys were registering, I can now clear the problem by using the Screen Bright Up hotkey. However, whenerver the display changes (upon boot, upon login, etc), the primary screen goes black and requires use of the Screen Bright Up hotkey. The workaround (running `xev`) appears permanent across reboots. That is, I only needed to run it once and things kind-of magically started working.
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