I have a Zenbook UX580GE which has a secondary monitor / touchpad hybrid.
It would be great if I could actually use it as a monitor. My main display works, but I can not enable the secondary display.
NVIDIA drivers are installed (by default).
(Also, when I booted into the live Garuda env, every two seconds the display management pop up showed up, I had to disable Kscreen2, idk if thats related)
I think there are some internal registers to be set in order to activate the display, but I am no expert by any means.
Thank you a lot!
(For some reason it shows the wrong model number, UX580GE is correct, not the one in the output!
Why do you believe you can make your touchpad (input) work as a display/monitor (output)?
What does the User Manual say about it?
Do you mean you can use it as a second monitor in Windows or other OS?
Linux utilities gather HW info by probing the hardware.
So it seems you have this, until it’s proven otherwise.
Maybe your vendor, or provider knows more about it, so you should ask them.
What do you exactly mean? I know that this is not the model probed. If you do a quick google search you can see that my model has the built in monitor/touchpad and the probed one is completely different.
If you do a quick google search on my stated laptop model you will see that it has an acutal monitor built in with a touch digitizer which acts as a trackpad.
And yes, in Windows it just gets recognized as a secondary monitor and works.
This is my main laptop screen. In windows I can just press a hotkey (FN F6) to activate the display.
It seems that this won’t work when I am inside linux.
But I don’t. I look for facts and facts say otherwise. It doesn’t matter what you think you know. Provide facts, so I know too.
A friend had bought a 1TB ext drive in low price, with everything perfect from outside. Even Win File Manager showed 1TB. A simple test copying files inside revealed it was 64GB (an actual flash drive inside the box).
I don’t take the box titles/letters as enough proof. Not even the purchase receipt.
It’s your HW (purchase) and it’s you that should worry about the different reports. I don’t care.
I am a technician and learned to read the facts/books.
You should not make me ask about it. How many in the world own this model? I am not aware of this toy. Can you buy me one to test it?
We still need more info for this. I suggest you ask your vendor.
This sounds similar to other vendor/HW exclusive functions, like WiFi and backlight toggles, etc. These need specific ACPI code and drivers to make it work in Linux. Since it’s a rare functionality, I assume it might not have been included in the kernel, or any Linux drivers exist. I have no idea where to find such info, except looking into AUR, if you’re lucky.
Again, the vendor may know more.
Post what the vendor answers to your questions.
ASUS does not tell one anything, they simply refuse to give an awnser because they do not support linux on their device...
I am not that accustom to get such info from vendors, is there a secret door to go through to get more information?
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3840 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1 connected primary 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 382mm x 215mm
1920x1080 239.96*+ 144.01 120.00 119.88 100.00 75.00 60.00 59.94 50.00 50.00 60.00 50.04
1680x1050 59.95
1440x900 59.89
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1280x960 60.00
1280x800 59.81
1280x720 60.00 59.94 50.00
1152x864 75.00
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
800x600 75.00 72.19 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00
720x480 59.94
640x480 75.00 72.81 59.94
eDP-1-1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm
1920x1080 60.01*+ 60.01 59.97 59.96 59.93
1680x1050 59.95 59.88
1400x1050 59.98
1600x900 59.99 59.94 59.95 59.82
1280x1024 60.02
1400x900 59.96 59.88
1280x960 60.00
1440x810 60.00 59.97
1368x768 59.88 59.85
1280x800 59.99 59.97 59.81 59.91
1280x720 60.00 59.99 59.86 59.74
1024x768 60.04 60.00
960x720 60.00
928x696 60.05
896x672 60.01
1024x576 59.95 59.96 59.90 59.82
960x600 59.93 60.00
960x540 59.96 59.99 59.63 59.82
800x600 60.00 60.32 56.25
840x525 60.01 59.88
864x486 59.92 59.57
700x525 59.98
800x450 59.95 59.82
640x512 60.02
700x450 59.96 59.88
640x480 60.00 59.94
720x405 59.51 58.99
684x384 59.88 59.85
640x400 59.88 59.98
640x360 59.86 59.83 59.84 59.32
512x384 60.00
512x288 60.00 59.92
480x270 59.63 59.82
400x300 60.32 56.34
432x243 59.92 59.57
320x240 60.05
360x202 59.51 59.13
320x180 59.84 59.32
DP-1-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
1680x1050 (0x1ec) 146.250MHz -HSync +VSync
h: width 1680 start 1784 end 1960 total 2240 skew 0 clock 65.29KHz
v: height 1050 start 1053 end 1059 total 1089 clock 59.95Hz
1280x1024 (0x1f3) 108.000MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 1280 start 1328 end 1440 total 1688 skew 0 clock 63.98KHz
v: height 1024 start 1025 end 1028 total 1066 clock 60.02Hz
1280x960 (0x1f6) 108.000MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 1280 start 1376 end 1488 total 1800 skew 0 clock 60.00KHz
v: height 960 start 961 end 964 total 1000 clock 60.00Hz
1280x800 (0x1fd) 83.500MHz -HSync +VSync
h: width 1280 start 1352 end 1480 total 1680 skew 0 clock 49.70KHz
v: height 800 start 803 end 809 total 831 clock 59.81Hz
1024x768 (0x204) 65.000MHz -HSync -VSync
h: width 1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1344 skew 0 clock 48.36KHz
v: height 768 start 771 end 777 total 806 clock 60.00Hz
800x600 (0x213) 40.000MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 800 start 840 end 968 total 1056 skew 0 clock 37.88KHz
v: height 600 start 601 end 605 total 628 clock 60.32Hz
800x600 (0x214) 36.000MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 800 start 824 end 896 total 1024 skew 0 clock 35.16KHz
v: height 600 start 601 end 603 total 625 clock 56.25Hz
640x480 (0x220) 25.175MHz -HSync -VSync
h: width 640 start 656 end 752 total 800 skew 0 clock 31.47KHz
v: height 480 start 490 end 492 total 525 clock 59.94Hz
This is my xrandr output. The 240 Hz screen is an external monitor I hooked up.
I suspect I can somehow turn on connection DP-1-2, as similar but newer laptop models (ZenBook Pro Duo) do have DP-1-2 connected as the secondary monitor internally
I just need to figure out how to enable this connection...
The only place you might find something helpful is the BIOS setup.
I guess you are not comfortable reading boring manuals.
I also find those who don’t like to read manuals not worth helping them.
But who cares about what I think?..
I don't know why you feel the need to make accusations like that but
I searched the BIOS setup many times, there is no such setting that will enable the ScreenPad as far as I am concerned
I did read through the user manual and found no valuable information on how to turn the screenpad on inside linux.
If I missed anything and or could not make use of infos from the user manual it would be very kind of you if you may at least tell me that I missed something, but I don't really think much of such bold accusations given the fact I could not make sense out of the manual for this issue.
From the fact that despite my suggestions and questions about the manual, you did not answer. Simple!
Do you mean I have to search in order to find it, while you can provide a link?
Hmmm… Interesting perspective from someone that requests assistance from an unknown person for free.
Well ok, here is the neutral and correct way to go about that:
Ask if the manual was read, tell that otherwise one is not willing to help
Very simple, no need to make salty accusations like:
Like come on, just because I did not explicity said “The manual does not contain information on this” you had to be like this? I think you are mature enough to not accuse like that again, nobody was mean to you and nobody forced you to help, so no reason to act this way.
