The UI on external Monitor turned into red

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Hi,

I have a problem with an external monitor. I recently added a post about my laptop display was displaying everything in yellow (link to the topic: The UI turned into yellow)

The solution was to switch in the BIOS from discrete graphics to switchable graphics.
The problem now is that when I connect an external monitor, the whole UI turns red, as before yellow.

I don't really know how to explain how it looks like, so I will leave a link here to a image hosting site with a photo of my problem: 5c7e34bc-eb37-4405-9621-a7ccd0b4aadd — ImgBB

I just want to add that it is not the hardware fault, because it was already tested on other devices.

Can you help me please?

inxi -Faz

System:
  Kernel: 5.17.1-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
    root=UUID=c1f2b9d3-8cdd-4040-ba90-79817f25ec25 rw rootflags=subvol=@
    quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
    systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 loglevel=3
  Desktop: GNOME v: 41.5 tk: GTK v: 3.24.33 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM v: 41.3
    Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82GN v: Lenovo Legion 5 17ARH05H
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: Lenovo Legion 5 17ARH05H
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0R32862 WIN
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: FSCN14WW date: 08/26/2020
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 43.6 Wh (55.1%) condition: 79.2/80.0 Wh (99.0%)
    volts: 15.4 min: 15.4 model: Celxpert L19C4PC2 type: Li-poly
    serial: <filter> status: N/A cycles: 11
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Zen 2 family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x60 (96) stepping: 1
    microcode: 0x8600104
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 8x512 KiB
    L3: 8 MiB desc: 2x4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1405 high: 1547 min/max: 1400/2900 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: performance cores: 1: 1397 2: 1395
    3: 1397 4: 1397 5: 1397 6: 1397 7: 1396 8: 1392 9: 1547 10: 1396 11: 1397
    12: 1393 13: 1391 14: 1397 15: 1396 16: 1396 bogomips: 92626
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile] vendor: Lenovo
    driver: nouveau v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max:
    lanes: 16 ports: active: none empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,eDP-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1f15 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: AMD Renoir vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: gen: 4
    speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-2 empty: none bus-ID: 05:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:1636 class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 3-3:2 chip-ID: 04f2:b6c2 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 compositor: gnome-shell driver: X:
    loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa
    gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :1 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: eDP-2 mapped: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0x449d built: 2018
    res: 1920x1080 hz: 144 dpi: 128 gamma: 1.2 size: 382x215mm (15.04x8.46")
    diag: 438mm (17.3") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8
    link-max: lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: Lenovo
    driver: N/A alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x, snd_pci_acp5x,
    snd_pci_acp6x, snd_sof_amd_renoir
    pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 05:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2
    class-ID: 0480
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 05:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.1-zen1-1-zen running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.49 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Lenovo driver: rtw_8822ce v: N/A modules: rtw88_8822ce pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 2000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c822
    class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 5-3:5 chip-ID: 0bda:c123 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: down
    bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes
    address: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 19.26 GiB (4.0%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
    model: MZALQ512HALU-000L2 size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: BL2QFXV7 temp: 32.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 152.24 GiB size: 152.24 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 19.24 GiB (12.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%)
    used: 29.8 MiB (11.6%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 152.24 GiB size: 152.24 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 19.24 GiB (12.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 152.24 GiB size: 152.24 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 19.24 GiB (12.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
  ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 152.24 GiB size: 152.24 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 19.24 GiB (12.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.07 GiB used: 2.5 MiB (0.0%)
    priority: 100 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: N/A mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
  GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 36.0 C device: nouveau temp: N/A
Info:
  Processes: 363 Uptime: 4m wakeups: 2 Memory: 15.07 GiB used: 3 GiB (19.9%)
  Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1
  Packages: pacman: 1233 lib: 349 Shell: fish v: 3.4.1 running-in: alacritty
  inxi: 3.3.14

System:
  Kernel: 5.17.1-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
    root=UUID=c1f2b9d3-8cdd-4040-ba90-79817f25ec25 rw rootflags=subvol=@
    quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
    systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 loglevel=3
  Desktop: GNOME v: 41.5 tk: GTK v: 3.24.33 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM v: 41.3
    Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82GN v: Lenovo Legion 5 17ARH05H
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: Lenovo Legion 5 17ARH05H
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0R32862 WIN
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: FSCN14WW date: 08/26/2020
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 43.6 Wh (55.1%) condition: 79.2/80.0 Wh (99.0%)
    volts: 15.4 min: 15.4 model: Celxpert L19C4PC2 type: Li-poly
    serial: <filter> status: N/A cycles: 11
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Zen 2 family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x60 (96) stepping: 1
    microcode: 0x8600104
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 8x512 KiB
    L3: 8 MiB desc: 2x4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1457 high: 1969 min/max: 1400/2900 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: performance cores: 1: 1969 2: 1396
    3: 1399 4: 1397 5: 1397 6: 1455 7: 1415 8: 1397 9: 1699 10: 1417 11: 1397
    12: 1396 13: 1397 14: 1397 15: 1395 16: 1394 bogomips: 92626
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile] vendor: Lenovo
    driver: nouveau v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max:
    lanes: 16 ports: active: none empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,eDP-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1f15 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: AMD Renoir vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: gen: 4
    speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-2 empty: none bus-ID: 05:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:1636 class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 3-3:2 chip-ID: 04f2:b6c2 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 compositor: gnome-shell driver: X:
    loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa
    gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :1 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: eDP-2 mapped: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0x449d built: 2018
    res: 1920x1080 hz: 144 dpi: 128 gamma: 1.2 size: 382x215mm (15.04x8.46")
    diag: 438mm (17.3") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8
    link-max: lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: Lenovo
    driver: N/A alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x, snd_pci_acp5x,
    snd_pci_acp6x, snd_sof_amd_renoir
    pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 05:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2
    class-ID: 0480
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 05:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.1-zen1-1-zen running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.49 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Lenovo driver: rtw_8822ce v: N/A modules: rtw88_8822ce pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 2000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c822
    class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 5-3:5 chip-ID: 0bda:c123 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 4 state: down
    bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes
    address: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 324.98 GiB (68.1%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
    model: MZALQ512HALU-000L2 size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: BL2QFXV7 temp: 33.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 152.24 GiB size: 152.24 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 19.06 GiB (12.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%)
    used: 29.8 MiB (11.6%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 152.24 GiB size: 152.24 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 19.06 GiB (12.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 152.24 GiB size: 152.24 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 19.06 GiB (12.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
  ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 152.24 GiB size: 152.24 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 19.06 GiB (12.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.07 GiB used: 2.1 MiB (0.0%)
    priority: 100 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: N/A mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
  GPU: device: nouveau temp: N/A device: amdgpu temp: 36.0 C
Info:
  Processes: 372 Uptime: 3h 14m wakeups: 8 Memory: 15.07 GiB
  used: 4.72 GiB (31.3%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
  gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1233 lib: 349 Shell: fish
  v: 3.4.1 running-in: alacritty inxi: 3.3.14
Garuda (2.5.6-2):
  System install date:     2021-11-14
  Last full system update: 2022-04-03
  Is partially upgraded:   No
  Relevant software:       NetworkManager
  Windows dual boot:       Probably (Run as root to verify)
  Snapshots:               Timeshift (maybe)
  Failed units:
2

Please, post output from garuda-inxi.

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3

I'm sorry, the output is now on the post.

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4

Has it been red the whole time? I see the "solution" for the yellow color is from nearly six months ago.

5

I have never connected an external monitor before, I only found out about this problem today.

6

Can you examine the monitor and try to determine what the model number is?

7

It's Philips 241v8la/00, but as I said, I don't think it's hardware fault, I have Windows 10 on other partition and it works well.

8

There should be a color menu accessible on your monitor where you can manipulate the color bias you are seeing and try to achieve a more reasonable balance.

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That may be true, but keep in mind the manufacturer made a special driver for this device that is only available for Windows.

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Even if you did not intentionally download this driver, it is very likely your machine was able to download it (or a version of it) without your knowledge or with an unobtrusive notification while you were setting up the monitor.

It is impossible to say exactly what that driver does, but it is certainly possible that it automatically adjusts the color of your monitor for you, or other things that you will have to do manually without the special driver.

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9

Some models have this kind of graphics auto switching, but it (the automation) is designed for WinOS and it seems to communicate with WinOS video driver.
As some times reported, BIOS firmware shows/hides one video card during activity changes, with unknown (and uncontrolled from Linux) logic.
If there is an option for Always All Cards On, or similar, Linux should be able to control them both. Nvidia proprietary driver for Linux has released some kind of automation per workload (a kind of auto-switch). Maybe this could help you with your issue, or not. (You are now using Open Source nouveau) :person_shrugging:

In the meantime, you could test if opening some program like Firefox (demanding app) with prime do produce something different.

DRI_PRIME=1 firefox
10

what is the connection ? hdmi, usb-c etc. going via a dock etc