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dual display for xu Precise Pangolin 12.04

Asked by Galen Thurber

hoping to get Precise Pangolin 12.04 LT Xubuntu running dual displays, on VGA (CRT) the other smart tv via HDMI.
as soon as xu goes to login screen I lose DVI to HDMI connection.
Other distros, sparky, mint, puppy all work fine with dual display

I run nvidia 173 on a nv34 video card
/0/100/b/0 display NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
/0/100/e bridge nForce3 250Gb PCI-to-PCI Bridge
3.2.0-60-generic #91-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 19 03:54:44 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
nvidia config does not show a second display

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep nvidia

Thanks

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Galen Thurber (godfree2) said : 		#2

  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=248 maxlatency=1 mingnt=5
       resources: irq:16 memory:f2000000-f2ffffff memory:e8000000-efffffff memory:f3000000-f301ffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux west-desktop 3.2.0-60-generic #91-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 19 03:54:44 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ii nvidia-173 173.14.39-0ubuntu0.0.1 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-common 1:0.2.44.2 Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
ii nvidia-settings 331.20-0ubuntu0.0.1 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

If you run :

nvidia-settings

And use the 'detect display' button does it jump into life. You may have to press it a few times

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Galen Thurber (godfree2) said : 		#4

no button for nvidia-setting
but on exit reports

The program 'nvidia-settings' received an X Window System error.

This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.
  (Details: serial 286 error_code 1 request_code 140 minor_code 29)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

sudo nvidia-setting --sync

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#5

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