I bought a laptop ASUS Zenbook ux305ua. There is a micro HDMI port on this laptop.
When I plug a HDMI-2-VGA adapter on laptop with Windows, it works as well, but ubuntu 16.04 cannot detect external monitor. Did I miss any driver?
I do cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-HDMI-A-1/edid
but I get nothing.
I go to "System Settings > Displays" and click "Detect Displays", but still not works.
Ubuntu: 16.04
Hardware: Asus Zenbook UX305UA
GPU: Intel
Graphic package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Best Answer
Your GPU is the integrated Intel which uses the package
xserver-xorg-video-intel
by default. It is very buggy and will be removed from Ubuntu in the coming releases formodesetting
. You can dosudo apt-get purge xserver-xorg-video-intel
, which puts Ubuntu to use themodesetting
package.sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel
.As a side-note, my laptop crashes often with
xserver-xorg-video-intel
package, just when I connect the cable there.Hardware: Asus Zenbook UX303UA
Ubuntu: 16.04 64 bit
Linux kernel: 4.7
GPU: Intel integrated
Graphic package:
modesetting