Internal monitor not working trying to fix screen tearing with nvidia-settings

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I have a laptop and an external monitor, yesterday I could use both just fine but after turning it on today the internal monitor no longer works on x11, it turns black and cannot be detected after logging in just fine with both monitors seemingly working. Unplugging the external monitor same thing, except it stays grey after log in, but on Wayland I can load into the desktop just fine. I assume that nvidia-settings did something when I turned on “Force Full Composition Pipeline” which, when it saved to xorg.conf seems to have set the external monitor as the only monitor. Laptop Model is Asus Tuf Dash F15, it has a Nvidia 3060 and a Intel i7-12650H. In nvidia-settings, gnome displays and the output of xrandr --query I don’t see the internal monitor at all on a x11 session. I’ll paste xorg.conf and the output here:

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 550.78


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "LG Electronics LG ULTRAGEAR"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 230.0
    VertRefresh     48.0 - 120.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU"
EndSection

Section "Screen"

# Removed Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0 {ForceCompositionPipeline=On, ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On}"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "Stereo" "0"
    Option         "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "HDMI-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    Option         "SLI" "Off"
    Option         "MultiGPU" "Off"
    Option         "BaseMosaic" "off"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection


xrandr --query
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 2560 x 1440, maximum 32767 x 32767
DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 connected primary 2560x1440+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 697mm x 392mm
   2560x1440     99.95*+  74.97    59.95  
   3840x2160     59.94    50.00    29.97    25.00    23.98  
   1920x1080    119.88    75.00    60.00    59.94    50.00  
   1680x1050     59.95  
   1600x900      60.00  
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1280x800      59.81  
   1280x720      60.00    59.94    50.00  
   1152x864      60.00  
   1024x768      75.03    60.00  
   800x600       75.00    60.32  
   720x576       50.00  
   720x480       59.94  
   640x480       75.00    59.94    59.93

Is there a way to reset xorg.conf? (Also Nvidia settings insists I only have one monitor…) Or maybe that’s not the issue? Thanks in advance for any assistance.

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I deleted the xorg conf and that appears to have fixed it.