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I've been trying without success to configure dual monitors on 12.04, I've installed the nvidia drivers but the gui tool doesn't seem to support my graphics card.

nvidia settings

Any Idea on how to resolve this?

Oh, and the output from

$ lspci | grep VGA
$ 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G86 [Quadro NVS 290] (rev a1)
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  • The problem seem to be the graphics card, it only had one DVI port and I was using a splitter to connect an additional monitor. Which worked great in windows. Ubuntu doesn't seem to detect the second monitor though.
    – Martinffx
    Dec 8, 2012 at 11:23
  • I have this issue with a graphics card with two VGA ports, the card worked fine with two (non-mirrored) monitors on a different machine (with 9.04).
    – hayd
    Mar 4, 2013 at 13:07
  • For me i solved it too switching from "(version current) [Recommended]" to "(post-release updates) (version current-updates)" in Additional Drivers aplication.
    – elvismdev
    Mar 28, 2013 at 19:08

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Problem was solved for me by switching from "(version current) [Recommended]" to "(post-release updates) (version current-updates)" .

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    Can I ask where you made this switch? Thanks. Nov 21, 2012 at 16:22
  • Switch is made in "Additional Drivers". You can find this in "System Settings" or do a search in the dash.
    – Sofox
    Jul 26, 2013 at 14:26
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I had the same problem and this worked for me:

  1. Open "System Settings" -> "Additional drivers"
  2. Select "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current)" and click "Activate"
  3. Reboot
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  • I've done that several times with different versions of the drivers. I've even recompiled the kernel with the new drivers, but no luck.
    – Martinffx
    Oct 26, 2012 at 12:26
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I had the same problem on Ubuntu 10.04.

I had to install "nvidia-settings - Tool of configuring the NVDIA graphics driver" via Software Center. That solved the problem.

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I had the same problem and solved it by removing the (too new) nvidia-settings. After that I had to reinstall the nvidia-settings belonging to the installed nvidia-kernel (in my case 295.40).

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