Second screen failing to turn on #2948
Description
Describe the bug
I don't know if this is a COSMIC, POP OS, NVidia, Wayland or others concern but since there isn't a forum for pop_os or COSMIC i'm posting it here. I was not able to make this laptop work with any other distro I tried.
I have installed pop_os with nvidia graphics on a 2019 laptop Dell G3 with a GTX1050. It didn't turned on my second screen. So I read I needed different drivers for a GTX 10xx and after installing it it worked fine. If anyone is able to help me or to direct me where should I open an issue or ask for help I'd be thankfull.
But most times I start up the laptop it just won't turn on my second screen. It connects and lights up for a second but then just turns off, image only showing on the laptop's screen. This also happens when the computer is restarted, awaken from sleep or even when the screen is turned off by the system timer and I wake it up again. The way to make it works is to always disconnect and reconnect the HDMI cable.
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
As described above. I think this should happen on any computer with a GeForce pre GTX16xx.
Expected behavior
The second screen connected to the HDMI cable should be awaken whenever it is connected and configured to display any image and the computed is running.
Screenshots
I'm pasting here the drivers I'm using.
thiago@pop-os:~$ lsmod | grep -i nvidia
nvidia_uvm 2076672 0
nvidia_drm 135168 32
nvidia_modeset 1568768 10 nvidia_drm
nvidia 104026112 192 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_drm,nvidia_modeset
drm_ttm_helper 16384 1 nvidia_drm
video 77824 4 dell_wmi,dell_laptop,i915,nvidia_modesetthiago@pop-os:~$ dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia
ii libnvidia-cfg1-580:amd64 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX configuration library
ii libnvidia-common-580 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e all Shared files used by the NVIDIA libraries
ii libnvidia-compute-580:amd64 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e amd64 NVIDIA libcompute package
ii libnvidia-compute-580:i386 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e i386 NVIDIA libcompute package
ii libnvidia-decode-580:amd64 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e amd64 NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries
ii libnvidia-decode-580:i386 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e i386 NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries
ii libnvidia-egl-wayland1:amd64 1:1.1.20-1pop1~1759419563~24.04~6d277c8 amd64 Wayland EGL External Platform library -- shared library
ii libnvidia-egl-wayland1:i386 1:1.1.20-1pop1~1759419563~24.04~6d277c8 i386 Wayland EGL External Platform library -- shared library
ii libnvidia-encode-580:amd64 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e amd64 NVENC Video Encoding runtime library
ii libnvidia-encode-580:i386 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e i386 NVENC Video Encoding runtime library
ii libnvidia-extra-580:amd64 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e amd64 Extra libraries for the NVIDIA driver
ii libnvidia-fbc1-580:amd64 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library
ii libnvidia-fbc1-580:i386 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e i386 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library
ii libnvidia-gl-580:amd64 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD
ii libnvidia-gl-580:i386 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e i386 NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD
ii nvidia-compute-utils-580 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e amd64 NVIDIA compute utilities
ii nvidia-dkms-555 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e amd64 Transitional package for nvidia-dkms-580
ii nvidia-dkms-580 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e amd64 NVIDIA DKMS package
ii nvidia-driver-555 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e amd64 Transitional package for nvidia-driver-580
ii nvidia-driver-580 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e amd64 NVIDIA driver metapackage
ii nvidia-firmware-580-580.82.09 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e amd64 Firmware files used by the kernel module
ii nvidia-kernel-common-580 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e amd64 Shared files used with the kernel module
ii nvidia-kernel-source-580 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e amd64 NVIDIA kernel source package
ii nvidia-settings 510.47.03-0ubuntu4 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii nvidia-utils-580 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e amd64 NVIDIA driver support binaries
ii screen-resolution-extra 0.18.3ubuntu0.24.04.1 all Extension for the nvidia-settings control panel
ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-580 580.82.09-1pop1~1759962949~24.04~eb2851e amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driverthiago@pop-os:~$ nvidia-smi
Sat Jan 10 17:31:48 2026
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.82.09 Driver Version: 580.82.09 CUDA Version: 13.0 |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| 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 GTX 1050 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| N/A 45C P8 N/A / 5001W | 174MiB / 4096MiB | 25% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 2153 G cosmic-comp 38MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3170 G /usr/bin/python3 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 131734 G blackbox 1MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+thiago@pop-os:~$ modinfo nvidia
filename: /lib/modules/6.17.9-76061709-generic/updates/dkms/nvidia.ko.zst
alias: char-major-195-*
version: 580.82.09
supported: external
license: NVIDIA
firmware: nvidia/580.82.09/gsp_tu10x.bin
firmware: nvidia/580.82.09/gsp_ga10x.bin
srcversion: 3B7BEF3266B8498664D3B57
alias: pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc06sc80i00*
alias: pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc02i00*
alias: pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc00i00*
alias: of:N*T*Cnvidia,tegra264-displayC*
alias: of:N*T*Cnvidia,tegra264-display
alias: of:N*T*Cnvidia,tegra234-displayC*
alias: of:N*T*Cnvidia,tegra234-display
[continue]thiago@pop-os:~$ lsmod | grep -i nvidia
nvidia_uvm 2076672 0
nvidia_drm 135168 32
nvidia_modeset 1568768 10 nvidia_drm
nvidia 104026112 192 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_drm,nvidia_modeset
drm_ttm_helper 16384 1 nvidia_drm
video 77824 4 dell_wmi,dell_laptop,i915,nvidia_modesetDesktop (please complete the following information):
- OS: [e.g. Pop!_OS 24.04]
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