FW 16 w/ Kanvas 13 Pro "No Signal"

Framework Laptop 16 Linux
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Hiya, I’ve been using a fw 16 laptop (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series) for a bit now and have been enjoying it ^^
I put Ubuntu (24.04, BIOS 03.05) onto my laptop and have found it to be smooth sailing… mostly. Linux comes with compatibility problems and I feel this might be one of them. I have been trying to get my Kanvas 13 pro to work as a display but so far it continues to say no signal and then goes into sleep mode. I have tried multiple drivers including digimend, the official huion drivers, and now the OpenTabletDrivers. I got two of three of them working (digimends requires proprietary packages that I cannot download) to the same result which tells me it probably isn’t a drivers problem.
I have played around with the display settings, reset my computer an uncountable number of times, and made sure it was up to date. I have checked if there is a registered connection and there is- the problem is the display won’t display anything. As a side note, whenever I use super + p and go into joined displays mode both screens go black and I have to reset my computer to get the screen back.
So I come here in hopes someone can help me out. I’ve gone to reddit to no avail. I’m sure my laptop isn’t the problem but I thought I might as well ask, is there anything with the frameworks that could help me out here? Is there anything I might not have tried? Before anyone brings it up, yes I have made use the usb-c is in the right orientation and that everything is fully plugged in.

As a small note: If I cannot get my tablet to work by Sunday, I’ll likely return it and try a different brand

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This sounds a lot more like your DE might not even be aware there’s a display…
Does the Huion application even detect the device? – There’s the driver but they have an app as well.

Does lsusb list the device? Assuming you’re connected to USB that is.
Does xrandr --query list the device, if it does, it’s being recognized, however if your settings don’t show it, that’s another issue I’d love to know what the heck is about…

Have you tried other regular displays as well?

This might sound a bit annoying, but a slightly more nuclear option would be-- have you tried another Distro? You can live boot and test on the fly. I suggest giving Fedora a try, but personally, if you’re a beginner, I’d highly suggest Linux Mint (it’s based on Ubuntu so most things apply)

Now this is my Linux-preference-bias here, Ubuntu vanilla runs Gnome and is known for being quite limiting with settings by default, I’d implore you to also consider the polar oposite, which would be KDE (also my preffered DE, but besides the point), they (and Cinnamon, default desktop for Linux Mint) have a dedicated segment for Graphic Tablets, and can be set to a display-- Displays are still treated as displays.

Of coruse, if the Kamvas can display anything else just fine, then we now it’s your PC, and then if xrandr --query doesn’t work, I’d try live booting another distro and see if it works.

Very Darn Important, if you have the gpu, the gpu type-c port does NOT output video, as silly as it sounds.

Sidenote; If you have partitioned your install to have /home as a separate partition, if you were to switch linux distros, you can use the same partition, not formatted, and if you use the same username, most settings, and all files will remain across installations.