I am having series issues connecting external monitors to my new ThinkPad T14 Gen3. For once it cannot detect the HDMI port at all, which is annoying but avoidable as it can detect HDMI via a dock station connected through USB-C. However, one of the monitors I have only has VGA, DVI and DisplayPort connections, and my dock station only has DisplayPort, so I can only connect it there. But it just won't work. It doesn't even detect there been any DisplayPort at all, here is the output from xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 16 x 16, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 32767 x 32767
XWAYLAND0 connected primary 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 300mm x 190mm
1920x1200 59.96*+
1600x1200 59.96
1440x1080 59.99
1400x1050 59.98
1280x1024 59.89
1280x960 59.94
1152x864 59.96
1024x768 59.92
800x600 59.86
640x480 59.38
320x240 59.52
1680x1050 59.95
1440x900 59.89
1280x800 59.81
720x480 59.71
640x400 59.95
320x200 58.96
1920x1080 59.96
1600x900 59.95
1368x768 59.88
1280x720 59.86
1024x576 59.90
864x486 59.92
720x400 59.55
640x350 59.77
which correspond to the main laptop display, but nothing about any other ports. Is there anything I'm missing or should do to get it to work?
Update: I just did a BIOS update following this post. It resolved the HDMI issue. At least it detects the monitor, which it didn't before. It shows no signal but it's an old monitor connected with a VGA cable through a VGA to HDMI adapter, neither of which is particularly reliable so that might be the reason. I will test with a proper HDMI cable and new monitor as soon as I get one.
Nevertheless the DP issue remains, does not detect the monitor nor it shows up anywhere that the port is available.