[SOLVED] Connecting extra Monitor, laptop screen goes black.

Whenever i connect a additional monitor through HDMI (my only output), the laptop screen goes black. If i do FN + external_monitor switch, then the laptop screen turns on but the external monitor turns off.
If you move the mouse you can feel that the desktop has been extended as i wanted, it is just that one of the screens keeps going black. The gnome display settings show both screens as active, the menu is so minimalistic that there is not much to do.
system
[cristobal@orion ~]$ uname -a
Linux orion 3.11.4-1-razer #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 8 12:31:50 CLST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
As a side note, the custom kernel is almost identical to the original archlinux one, just that USB 3.0 module is disabled.
some packages
[cristobal@orion ~]$ pacman -Q nvidia-dkms bumblebee bbswitch-dkms nvidia-utils gnome-desktop
nvidia-dkms 325.15-2
bumblebee 3.2.1-3
bbswitch-dkms 0.7-1
nvidia-utils 325.15-1
gnome-desktop 1:3.10.0-1
Any ideas?
Last edited by labotsirc (2013-10-15 18:33:18)

The problem is now fixed,
For some weird reason, this time the gnome settings did work. Must have been some sort of rare bug that now i cannot reproduce.
Last edited by labotsirc (2013-10-15 18:32:53)

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since im living in singapore (bought this mac june'09 in melbourne,australia), there is no genius bar to be found, running a diagnostic only at any apple service cost me 120 bucks and if i have to change the logicboard, its gonna cost me ard 1000++ dollas since i dont have any applecare and my warranty expired 4mnths ago. so, i might be killing myself soon! yauuzaaaa

Screen goes black randomly

Hi everyone.
I have a very strange issue on 2 different PCs.
From time to time the screen goes completly black, and I have to wait about 2-3 seconds for it to restore the picture.
Both have NVIDIA video card, one PC has GF8900GT the second GF7200.
Both PCs running GNOME
In both PCs the screen is connected via DVI port.
One PC has Arch installed for about 4 months the second has a 3 days old installation.
I also have a laptop with Arch (about 4 months) but I didn't expirience any issues there.
I'm not sure what the problem is, but it really annoys me.
I'll be very gratefull if someone points me in the right direction.
Thanks in advance.

Hello dhruid,
Thanks for the question. After reviewing your post, it sounds like the screen goes black randomly. I would recommend that you read these articles, they may be helpful in troubleshooting your issue.
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) - Apple Support
OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode? - Apple Support
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Have a nice day,
Mario

Screen goes black for 3 seconds in premiere CS5 every time I click

This is the first time I run Premiere CS5... On a fresh system install.
I suspect it's not playing well with my video card, a Radeon HD 4870 with 1GB Ram... Very standard stuff. I am running window 7 64 bit with 12 gb RAM, a week old build. I have all the updates and latest drivers, sigh. After Effects CS5 runs fine, Maya 2010 runs fine, Quicktime runs fine... What gives.
Here's what happens: I only need to launch Premiere, right away I get the problem. The screen goes black 3 seconds before the prompt to create a new project. Once I create the project, the application workspace comes in, but if I click any menu, drag a tool window (whatever they are called), the screen goes black 3 seconds then comes back. Its basically impossible to work...Huge drag.
Update:
The problem stopped after I went into the 'device settings' in preferences and set the device to 'none'....When I clicked on the device settings panel, my monitor went black, and there was a 'no signal' warning that came up, as if the DVI-D signal was dead. I was able to restore the signal by hitting ctrl-alt-del which switched me out of Premiere onto the desktop. Clearly, there is some issue with video. I switched back into Premiere and was able then to set to no devices.
I'm not doing any capture at the moment, but I can only pray that it's some sort of bug related to not having a device connected? I plan on bringing footage from a RED in the next month. I upgraded to CS5 specifically so that I could use more than 4 gigs of RAM and for the new features.

THank you for sending this.
I followed the benchmark directions, and I get an error at the final step
when I run the script:
line 99
Error: path not found
I tried for an hour different things, namely to re run the whole test
procedure, deleting the output files, etc... he script is looking for
something in the preview files that it is not finding. I think the procedure
was written for a previous version, because the metadata settings are
different in my version of AME, and I don't know how much that affects it.
Also, AME increments the file names when it renders them so that I did not
get the right output file names at the first render. I had to turn off
incrementing and manually name each clip before rendering. The vb scricpt
looks for these names, so I understand it is important. I can't figure out,
however, what the script is looking for in the preview folder and not
finding.
After spending almost two hours trying to troubleshoot the script, I gave
up. I can tell you tho that it takes about 6-7 minutes on my box to encode
all the videos.

[SOLVED] Connecting extra Monitor, laptop screen goes black.

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