I am running Ubuntu 11.04. I have an NVidia GeForce GTX 295 card installed with driver version 295.53 installed. I had struggled with this for a while a few weeks ago, and gave up. However, last week, I came into work, and noticed both monitors were working. I thought one of my tech buddies helped me out (we are a small company, and I just spoke with him today. He thought it was still not working) so I went on my merry way happy that I had dual monitor support. Unfortunately, I crashed (tried to compile a program while running a large virtual box) the computer yesterday, and when it came back up, I was back to a single monitor again. I had not changed any settings or files related to any software installed.
TL;DR: Dual monitor support started working out of the blue, and upon reboot, disappears.
Any thoughts on where to go?
A few notes:
I understand about duplicate questions. I have tried a number of solutions from a wide range of websites, including this one, but none of them seem to help, or be relevant to my situation.
My xorg.conf file is as follows (which I assume was the correct mix of settings):
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 295.53 ([email protected]) Sat May 12 00:34:20 PDT 2012 #Section "Monitor" #Identifier "Monitor2" #VendorName "Unknown" #ModelName "Unknown" #HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0 #VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0 #Option "DPMS" #EndSection #Section "Device" #Identifier "Device0" #Driver "nvidia" #VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" #BoardName "GeForce GTX 295" #BusID "PCI:4:0:0" #EndSection #Section "Screen" #Identifier "Screen1" #Device "Device1" #Monitor "Monitor1" #DefaultDepth 24 #Option "TwinView" "True" #Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select" #SubSection "Display" #Depth 24 #EndSubSection #EndSection #Section "Screen" #Identifier "Screen2" #Device "Device2" #Monitor "Monitor2" #DefaultDepth 24 #Option "TwinView" "True" #Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select" #SubSection "Display" #Depth 24 #EndSubSection #EndSection Section "ServerLayout" #Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" #Screen 2 "Screen2" RightOf "Screen1" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown" HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0 VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor1" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown" HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0 VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce GTX 295" BusID "PCI:5:0:0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device1" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce GTX 295" BusID "PCI:4:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" #Option "TwinView" "True" #Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "True" Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" #Option "TwinView" "True" #Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Device1" Monitor "Monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "True" Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection
I would recommend using the nvidia's x configuration tool to accomplish this, as for as long as ive been hand editing xorg.conf's (since 2002) it seems to change drastically based on the drivers, card and distro xorg server and xrandr support.
For what it's worth, here's my xorg setup from ubuntu 10.04 LTS which has compositioning and acceleration enabled (I'm using compiz-fusion on it and twin view)
The key question to me based on your file is if you are trying to get twin view or two separate heads. in other words: one big spanning screen across both monitors? thats what my setup is doing.
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@yellow) Fri Apr 9 11:51:21 UTC 2010 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "Module" Load "type1" Load "freetype" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "Xinerama" "0" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" 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 "DELL 1908FP" HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "Quadro NVS 290" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "1" Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0" Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSectionI see you're using 295.53. Just to be safe could you try: