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I'm running Garuda. My laptop screen is on its very last legs. I have an external monitor that connects via USB-C. It has a Display Port connection, but the laptop itself does not. I'm using HDMI to connect to a larger display, but not having two monitors available is driving me insane. I know that the firmware supports display over USB-C, since it has worked before on previous distros and on Windows. My issue is that I can't get the system to recognize the display, and I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting.

I can post whatever dumps etc. if asked, but here's a neofetch screenshot screenshot for starters:

Are there packages I need to install? Drivers? I'm clueless and would really appreciate a starting point at the least. The last thing I need is a broken system because I'd have to use the (almost) entirely broken laptop screen to attempt a reinstall/change the BIOS.

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[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Awesome! Do you happen to know where/how I can grab those? ETA: Installed the DisplayLink stuff, but don't know where to go from here.

[–] raldone01@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Did you also enable the required service?

[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

I got the same roadblocks when trying this on my debian machine. I'm not sure what the fix is.