Set up dual monitor with cubes on 14.04

Asked by Lewis Frazee

I would like to set up a dual monitor system with two separate cubes using 14.04.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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What is the output of :

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a; sudo dmidecode -t 1

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Lewis Frazee (ljfrazee) said :
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lewis@ubuntu-2015-02-17:~$ sudo lshw -C display
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GF114 [GeForce GTX 560]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:67 memory:f4000000-f5ffffff memory:e8000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f3ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:f6000000-f607ffff

lewis@ubuntu-2015-02-17:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

lewis@ubuntu-2015-02-17:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu-2015-02-17 3.13.0-45-generic #74-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 13 19:37:48 UTC 2015 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

lewis@ubuntu-2015-02-17:~$ sudo dmidecode -t 1
# dmidecode 2.12
SMBIOS 2.7 present.

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
 Manufacturer: System manufacturer
 Product Name: System Product Name
 Version: System Version
 Serial Number: System Serial Number
 UUID: 568994E0-D7DA-11DD-928C-10BF487A951F
 Wake-up Type: Power Switch
 SKU Number: SKU
 Family: To be filled by O.E.M.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Did you enable the cube plugin in ccsm?

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Lewis Frazee (ljfrazee) said :
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i can't get that far. I cannot even get two x screens to work. I install the nvidia drivers and tell screen two to be a separate x screen and when I reboot it is blank. If I install compiz and the plugins without the nvidia drivers I will get the cube but they flip together instead of separately. I was able to make this work on 10.04 but not on 12.04 or 14.04.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
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