basic mosaic disables 2nd monitor with nvidia binary driver and gnome

Asked by jethro Inwald

I am not sure exactly when this issue was introduced but recently when specifying the basic mosaic option in nvidia-settings causes xorg to disable the secondary monitor you attempt to put in the mosaic leaving you with only one functioning monitor. Nvidia-settings was run as root below is a cat of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 361.42 (buildd@lgw01-18) Tue Apr 5 14:33:28 UTC 2016

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "Layout0"
    Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option "Xinerama" "0"
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"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier "Monitor0"
    VendorName "Unknown"
    ModelName "Gateway FHX2303L"
    HorizSync 30.0 - 80.0
    VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
    Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device0"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName "GeForce GTX 1080"
    BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device "Device0"
    Monitor "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Option "Stereo" "0"
    Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
    Option "metamodes" "GPU-3f127ed4-88d0-2cb4-8985-e605c030b99b.DVI-D-0: 1920x1080 +0+0, GPU-bd34806f-4012-bf27-24f3-860455eda108.DVI-D-0: 1280x1024 +1920+0"
    Option "MultiGPU" "Off"
    Option "SLI" "off"
    Option "BaseMosaic" "on"
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth 24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

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