Hey Jeff,
Thanks for the guidance on how to troubleshoot this. I had a chance to plug into the TV today and run inxi -Fzxx. Never heard of that command before; very handy.
It’s an Nvidia 1660 Ti card in a laptop. I tried every permutation of update, reboot, plug in and unplug etc.
I ran this on my current system as installed; and on the same system when booted from a Live USB Fedora 38 beta. The USB is running the nouveau driver and the external HDMI works. While the current system is having some trouble communicating with the Nvidia 1660 Ti. I will drop the nvidia-smi output below the inxi (long).
System as is w/ HDMI plugged in
*[kevin@fedora ~]$ inxi -Fzxx*
*System:*
* Kernel: 6.2.13-300.fc38.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc*
* v: 2.39-9.fc38 Desktop: GNOME v: 44.1 tk: GTK v: 3.24.37 wm: gnome-shell*
* dm: GDM Distro: Fedora release 38 (Thirty Eight)*
*Machine:*
* Type: Laptop System: Razer product: Blade 15 Base Model (Early 2020) -*
* RZ09-0328 v: 5.04 serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10*
* serial: <superuser required>*
* Mobo: Razer model: DA550 v: 4 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Razer*
* v: 01.06 date: 09/16/2020*
*Battery:*
* ID-1: BAT0 charge: 59.2 Wh (100.0%) condition: 59.2/65.0 Wh (91.1%)*
* volts: 17.4 min: 15.4 model: Razer Blade serial: <filter> status: full*
*CPU:*
* Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i7-10750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP*
* arch: Comet Lake rev: 2 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB L3: 12 MiB*
* Speed (MHz): avg: 1850 high: 2600 min/max: 800/5000 cores: 1: 800 2: 2600*
* 3: 2600 4: 2600 5: 800 6: 2600 7: 800 8: 2600 9: 800 10: 800 11: 2600*
* 12: 2600 bogomips: 62399*
* Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx*
*Graphics:*
* Device-1: Intel CometLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Razer USA*
* driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: none*
* bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9bc4*
* Device-2: NVIDIA TU116M [GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile] vendor: Razer USA*
* driver: N/A arch: Turing pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0*
* chip-ID: 10de:2191*
* Device-3: IMC Networks USB Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-7:2*
* chip-ID: 13d3:56bd*
* Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9*
* compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa*
* dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: 0*
* Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: LG Display 0x0625 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 142*
* diag: 395mm (15.5")*
* API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.0.3 renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (CML GT2)*
* direct-render: Yes*
*Audio:*
* Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Razer USA driver: snd_hda_intel*
* v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:06c8*
* Device-2: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: Razer USA*
* driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16*
* bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aeb*
* API: ALSA v: k6.2.13-300.fc38.x86_64 status: kernel-api*
* Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.70 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse*
* status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin*
* 4: pw-jack type: plugin*
*Network:*
* Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel*
* bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:06f0*
* IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>*
* Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet*
* vendor: Razer USA driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1*
* port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168*
* IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>*
*Bluetooth:*
* Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8*
* bus-ID: 1-14:4 chip-ID: 8087:0026*
* Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends*
*Drives:*
* Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 156.53 GiB (13.4%)*
* ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB*
* size: 931.51 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 37.9 C*
* ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLB256HAHQ-00000*
* size: 238.47 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 21.9 C*
*Partition:*
* ID-1: / size: 929.93 GiB used: 156.23 GiB (16.8%) fs: btrfs*
* dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3*
* ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 293.2 MiB (30.1%) fs: ext4*
* dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2*
* ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 17.4 MiB (2.9%) fs: vfat*
* dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1*
* ID-4: /home size: 929.93 GiB used: 156.23 GiB (16.8%) fs: btrfs*
* dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3*
*Swap:*
* ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100*
* dev: /dev/zram0*
*Sensors:*
* System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C pch: 47.0 C mobo: N/A*
* Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A*
*Info:*
* Processes: 347 Uptime: 4d 5h 28m Memory: 15.47 GiB used: 2.73 GiB (17.7%)*
* Init: systemd v: 253 target: graphical (5) default: graphical Compilers:*
* gcc: 13.0.1 Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 11*
* Shell: Bash v: 5.2.15 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.26*
Well that was fun. Here is something else I discovered.
*[kevin@fedora ~]$ nvidia-smi*
*NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.*
I suspect that my upgrade in place to f38 has left my graphics card in the wind. not looking forward to clean install and reconfigure everything.