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Dual screen disabled after installing recomended video card jsk drivers.

Asked by Mads Fisker

I just installed 12.04 lts, and jumped to my settings and enabled both my monitors, no problem in detecting them.
then i installed the "additional drivers" (Nvidia acclerated graphics driver (version 173)). rebooted and bam, now only one monitor is detectede in the display options. and it says is a laptop monitor.

i've tryed the 4 different drivers avaliable in the additional drivers option, but to no avail. im still stuck on one monitor.

what do i do?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

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

Thanks

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Mads Fisker (mads-fisker) said : 		#2

there you go.

a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep nvidia
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: G80 [GeForce 8800 GTS]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a2
       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:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f4000000-f5ffffff ioport:a000(size=128) memory:f7000000-f701ffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux majornuts-pc 3.2.0-29-generic-pae #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:25:43 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
ii nvidia-173 173.14.35-0ubuntu0.2 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-common 1:0.2.44 Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
ii nvidia-current 295.40-0ubuntu1.1 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-current-updates 295.49-0ubuntu0.2 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-settings 295.33-0ubuntu1 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii nvidia-settings-updates 295.33-0ubuntu1 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-173 nvidia-current nvidia-current-updates nvidia-settings nvidia-settings-updates
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

Reboot to test

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Mads Fisker (mads-fisker) said : 		#4

that solved it,
thanks alot Andrew

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Mads Fisker (mads-fisker) said : 		#5

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.