Occasionally my external display resisted to turn on after being re-plugged into laptop after suspend-resume cycle. The issue appeared again today, after I suspended laptop in the office and resumed it at home.
Tuning Display and Monitor in KDE Control Centre had no effect. Any attempts to turn on external display with
Eventually, after playing around, noticed suspicious
It appeared, that VGA1 output still remains kind of active, and laptop can only handle one external display at time.
Solution was as simple as this
Tuning Display and Monitor in KDE Control Centre had no effect. Any attempts to turn on external display with
xrandr
failed silently or with error cannot find crtc for output.
Eventually, after playing around, noticed suspicious
xrandr
output% xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 1848, maximum 32767 x 32767 LVDS1 connected primary 1366x768+0+1080 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 277mm x 156mm 1366x768 60.0*+ 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 56.2 640x480 59.9 VGA1 disconnected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) # suspicious line
It appeared, that VGA1 output still remains kind of active, and laptop can only handle one external display at time.
Solution was as simple as this
% xrandr --output VGA1 --off
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