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External Monitor (Asus) won't appear in Display with laptop (System76)

Asked by Bill T

I am using 12.04 beta 2 and having trouble with getting my external monitor recognized. I have DVI connection to laptop with HDMI connection to monitor. ( The monitor is on and does work with another computer)

Is there something I can do to make the the monitor register in the Display control panel?

I ran some commands to get some information:
 lshw -C display

 *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GF106 [GeForce GTX 460M]
       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:16 memory:f4000000-f4ffffff memory:e8000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:f6000000-f607ffff

bill@servalan:~$ lsb_release -a; uname -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux servalan 3.2.0-23-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 20:39:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you run:

nvidia-settings

and hit 'detect displays' button, does it pop into life?

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Bill T (degutan) said : 		#2

It does pop to life.

Before the upgrade, Display would prompt me to launch nvidia-settings... I never launched it directly like this.

Thanks for the help.