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Mouse trails on monitor connected to nVidia videocard in multi monitor setup on Ubuntu 13.04

I have a problem on my PC w/ Ubuntu 13.04 (fresh virgin installation as of yesterday) My Hardware spesifications: Asus P8Z77-M Pro mainboard Asus GeForce GT210 PCIe videocard 2x Philips 24" ...
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Underclock Nvidia Multiple Monitor

I have a laptop with Nvidia Geforce Go and nvidia drivers. My laptop screen is broken so I connect to an external monitor and disable the first. The nvidia gpu is constantly at highest and heats up ...
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My Toshiba laptop doesn't find the external monitor

Having used Ubuntu 12.04 and still using Mint 14.1 with an additional monitor on my Toshiba, when I installed Ubuntu 13.04 on the same laptop with that same monitor, it doesn't see the monitor. It ...
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NVIDIA GeForce 8300GS Drivers seem unstable

My system is a Dell Vostro 400 with the nvidia 8300GS card connected to a Dell 20" monitor on the DVI port and an ACER 22" screen on the xVGA?(15 pin blue) port. I have run through the suggestion on ...
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13.04 nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS - no second monitor and other problems

I have spent about an hour trying to find a solution to this, if someone has an answer or a link to an answer I would appreciate it. I just wiped my disk (formerly running 12.04 LTS) and installed ...
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Is it seriously not possible to use both SLI and two monitors at the same time on Ubuntu with Nvidia?

Now that Ubuntu is slowly becoming a viable gaming platform. Now that Valve gave Nvidia and AMD enough of a push to actually improve their proprietary drivers ... ... I'm completely and utterly ...
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Three monitors connected to AMD 7970, only HDMI works

Just made a clean install of Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit on my desktop machine with an AMD 7970 graphics card installed. I use a 24" Samsung screen that is connected via DVI as my primary monitor, a 19" ...
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Graphics driver for ATI FirePro 2770 not working properly on 12.04

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04, and I'm having the following problems: My monitor is not detected properly. In System Settings -> Display it says Laptop even though it is a desktop PC (a fairly standard ...
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Dual (Triple?) Monitor problem with QQ + Nouveau

I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 on a Dell Latitude with an NVIDIA NVS 4200m video card. I'm trying to get it to work with 3 monitors connected: the laptop's, one connected via VGA, and another via HDMI. ...
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Video / display issues

i just recently installed Ubuntu 13.04, everything was fine however i use dual nvidia 8800s, so one screen worked but the other didn't, so i installed the nvidia 310 drivers and gnome desktop, now ...
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display not sharp enough on external monitor

i am using ubuntu 12.04. The Display looks sharp enough on my laptop, but when i connect it to my external monitor (hp 2311x) it looks slightly blurry. I tried installing intel-linux-graphic-drivers ...
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Monitor flickering ATI

I'm using ubuntu 12.10 on laptop samsung with randeon hd 6620g (APU A8), when I run amdcccle -version it says 2.18, not sure if that's the correct version. My problem is that I have and external ...
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External monitor blanks (as if cable broken) with ati open-source drivers

This seem to be exactly the same question as Laptop VGA monitor (ati card) blanks ~every 30 seconds, but since that question is closed, I have to ask it again and hope for the better. My HP 8510p has ...
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Upgrade and custom fglrx drivers

I am on 12.04.2 with manually installed fglrx 12.10 drivers. I want to upgrade to 12.10 and then to 13.04. What will happen to my manually installed video drivers? Will they get replaced? I also have ...
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add 2nd vga card, reboot and no display [closed]

When I add a VGA card for a 2nd monitor, then reboot, I get no display at all. The original monitor works fine from the VGA on the motherboard. If booting with the VGA card added (NVidia) is ...
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AMD Video Cards: Force full-screen game to one monitor?

I have a AMD Radeon 7850 and a dual-montior setup, configured in the AMD Catalyst Control Center (amdcccle). My monitors are configured to act as a single screen (3360x1050). However, when I launch a ...
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Screen Resolution and ATI HD6850 Drivers Ubuntu 12.10

I am running dual monitors with an Sapphire HD6850 graphics card. My main monitor a 22" flat screen plugged in with a DVI port gets full 1680 x 1080 resolution. My second monitor is stuck at 1024 x ...
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New to Ubuntu using 12.10 having troube getting a second display to work

I am new to ubuntu so I don't know any information to provide to help me, so let me kno what you need. When I am trying to connect to external display on my laptop, mirroring the display is hit or ...
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Triple-display setup using AMD drivers

I am currently running a dual display setup with nVidia 8800GTS video card, on a Ubuntu 12.10 box. The current setup uses nVidia TwinView to render the image on a 1920x1200 display and 1600x1200 one. ...
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W520 External monitor setup with Ubuntu 12.10

I just installed a fresh Ubuntu 12.10 64-Bit Desktop on my Lenovo W520. It looks like there are a lot of challenges around making it work with out of the box Nouveau drivers or propriety Nvidia ...
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Glitchy refresh rate with 2 monitors nvidia driver 304 [closed]

I have no idea how refresh rates function and if they affect my problem but both my screens have a glitch that I can see when the image moves horizontally. Like this breath taking animation I made for ...
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Do I need the ATI driver or open source for dual monitor setup (ATI HD 4350 - 1GB PCI-e) in Pear Linux 12.04?

I think I covered my question in the title. Right now both monitors are mirrored (both 19" at 1440x900). I guess what I need to know is do I need the ATI proprietary driver or will the open source ...
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Create own screen resolution without Nvidia

I had a problem with my monitor Dell E207WFP. The first time I connected it to my Ubuntu, it had a possibility to set 1600x1040 resolution, but then I reinstalled some drivers and use set default ...
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How do I remove ATI video drivers? [duplicate]

I have a Radeon HD4850 video card and two monitors. When I try to activate the drivers from the "Additional Drivers" app, it either fails or it will not let me use two monitors. I downloaded the ...
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Can't use dual monitors with FGLRX

Well I'm using Ubuntu again after not touching it for years and I'm SO happy I did. I have one issue though. I have a Radeon HD 6470M in my laptop and the FGLRX driver works well except I can't use ...
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Nvidia Driver + Ubuntu 12.04

This seems very common topic these days but i have some additional problems. The additional drivers option is greyed out, and it says there are no drivers being used. The graphics driver shows ...
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Nvidia VGA and Ubuntu 11.10 problem

I installed Ubuntu 11.10 amd64 and it used the default settings and vga driver : unknown both screens sere working regardless of the errors of turning the laptop's off then both go off forever! so I ...
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Which NVIDIA drivers to use for dual-monitor support?

I have a fresh installation of Ubuntu 11.10 32-bit. The hardware I am running is: Asus P5Q Pro 4GB RAM NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT 24" LA2405wg connected via DisplayPort (shared with other machine) 20" ...
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Dual screen not working with a Nvidia binary driver

I just checked out the new ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 64bit and I can't get my second screen to work. It worked with kubuntu 11.04 (with binary drivers and with the drivers from nvidia website though not ...
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What is wrong when the X display does not cover 100% of the framebuffer on a HP2540p laptop

Whenever I have a dual monitor setup on my Laptop, one screen is the laptop display and the other the external monitor, I get into trouble with the X server framebuffers. Often the larger of the two ...
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Multi Monitor Setup Problems

I have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx. I have until recently been using a nVida Graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT) with two monitors attached, this all worked fine and dandy. A couple of days ...
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How to enable dual monitor with an ATI Radeon X300 card?

I am trying to enable dual monitor for my Ubuntu 11.04 and ATI Radeon X300 video card. Here is the information about my monitors: $ sudo lshw -C display *-display:0 description: VGA ...