Usb Monitor Issue

Hello everyone, i’m trying to make my second monitor working on my laptop but i’m not having any success.
First of all my

garuda-inxi

Kernel: 5.18.14-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=0537531b-0a1b-492b-8543-6ca7cf4284eb rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
loglevel=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.25.3 tk: Qt v: 5.15.5 info: latte-dock
wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ROG Strix G531GT_G531GT v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: G531GT v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: G531GT.308 date: 02/01/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 39.0 Wh (100.0%) condition: 39.0/50.5 Wh (77.2%)
volts: 12.5 min: 12.5 model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: not charging
ID-2: hidpp_battery_0 charge: 88% condition: N/A volts: 4.1 min: N/A
model: Logitech G502 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Gaming Mouse type: N/A
serial: <filter> status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-9750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake
gen: core 9 built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6 model-id: 0x9E (158)
stepping: 0xD (13) microcode: 0xF0
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB
L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 904 high: 952 min/max: 800/4500 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 843 2: 900 3: 900 4: 926
5: 902 6: 952 7: 937 8: 900 9: 900 10: 900 11: 894 12: 900
bogomips: 62399
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: retbleed mitigation: Enhanced IBRS
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: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20
ports: active: eDP-1 empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: nvidia v: 515.57 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 515.xx+
status: current (as of 2022-06) arch: Turing process: TSMC 12nm
built: 2018-22 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1f91 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: DisplayLink ASUSTEK MB169B+ type: USB driver: N/A bus-ID: 2-4:3
chip-ID: 17e9:ff0b class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: nouveau alternate: fbdev,intel,nv,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
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-1 model: Najing CEC Panda 0x0036 built: 2018
res: 1920x1080 hz: 120 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64")
diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2)
v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.3 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10fa
class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.18.14-zen1-1-zen running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:a370 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK 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: eno2 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) type: USB
driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:3 chip-ID: 8087:0aaa class-ID: e001
Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.38 TiB used: 10.07 GiB (0.7%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Micron
model: 2200V MTFDHBA512TCK size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: P1MA0V4 temp: 29.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LX015-1U7172
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B
speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: SDM1
scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%)
used: 10.07 GiB (2.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 608 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%)
used: 10.07 GiB (2.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%)
used: 10.07 GiB (2.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%)
used: 10.07 GiB (2.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.48 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C pch: 47.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2800
Info:
Processes: 277 Uptime: 1h 8m wakeups: 3 Memory: 15.48 GiB
used: 2.93 GiB (18.9%) Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1216 lib: 308
Shell: fish v: 3.4.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole
inxi: 3.3.19
Garuda (2.6.5-1):
System install date:     2022-07-26
Last full system update: 2022-07-26
Is partially upgraded:   No
Relevant software:       NetworkManager
Windows dual boot:       Probably (Run as root to verify)
Snapshots:               Snapper
Failed units:

Hardware

Second Monitor

The monitor giving me problem is an ASUS MB169B+.

Machine

Asus ROG Strix G G531
CPU: Intel(R) Core™ i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
Bios American Megatrends version 308 (already checked and it’s upgraded to latest version)

Nvidia driver

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 515.57       Driver Version: 515.57       CUDA Version: 11.7     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce ...  Off  | 00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   37C    P0     7W /  N/A |      5MiB /  4096MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A       630      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                       4MiB |

Procedure followed

1-Downloaded the kde dragonized version though the installer,verified the checksum and created the bootable driver with rufus.
2-Gone into the bios disabled the secure boot and set my SATA controller to AHCI.
3-Installed Garuda with the default option and allowed the nvidia driver (i’m not trying to dual boot there is only garuda os on my pc).
4-Installed pamac and used to install displaylink and evdi.
5-Gone into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and created the 20-evdi.conf file where i copy and pasted from the arch wikia displaylink article

Section "OutputClass"
	Identifier "DisplayLink"
	MatchDriver "evdi"
	Driver "modesetting"
	Option "AccelMethod" "none"
EndSection

and rebooted the system.
6- Then

xrandr --listproviders

return me

Providers: number : 2
Provider 0: id: 0x42 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 3 outputs: 1 associated providers: 1 name:modesetting
Provider 1: id: 0x26b cap: 0x2, Sink Output crtcs: 4 outputs: 1 associated providers: 1 name:NVIDIA-G0

after this i tried following the guide

xrandr --setprovideroutputsource 1 0

but my monitor is still black.
Also tried

xrandr --setprovideroutputsource 0 1

that return me

X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request:  140 (RANDR)
Minor opcode of failed request:  35 (RRSetProviderOutputSource)
Value in failed request:  0x26b
Serial number of failed request:  16
Current serial number in output stream:  17

My monitor is working because when i plug it into the usb port it turn on and show me the asus logo and when i ran

lsusb

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 17e9:ff0b DisplayLink ASUSTEK MB169B+
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0b05:1866 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. N-KEY Device
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:c539 Logitech, Inc. Cordless Mouse Receiver
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 8087:0aaa Intel Corp. Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP)
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c545 Logitech, Inc. USB Receiver
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

What i’m doing wrong? Thanks for the help

Hi there, I mainly just wanted to congratulate on your very detailed and well formatted first support request!
I've no experience on this stuff and I'm sure you've already checked this Arch wiki article, reading your steps, anyway did you have a chance to give a look at this linked section and relevant Nvidia and Intel troubleshooting sections?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DisplayLink#Switching_between_displaylink_and_nvidia/nouveau_driver

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Archwiki example is for a machine with one GPU and a DisplayLink, so it shows two providers.
Yours should show three, Intel, Nvidia and DisplayLink.
Check if the module is loaded and if it’s not, load it manually.

lsmod | grep udl
modeprobe udl

If it works, create a loader file in /etc/modprobe.d/ as explaine in wiki.

You might see m ore info with:

inxi --usb -a 

Edit:
It might be because of this.
You may try one of the two workarounds listed.
Also, read all troubleshooting part, as it gives useful info for debugging, or just to have in mind.

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