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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" ...
0
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0answers
64 views
How to get Nvidia Graphic card to work on Thinkpad T430?
I installed Ubuntu Linux on my Thinkpad T430 and everything works until last week.
Because then I bought a new monitor with a higher screen resolution than full hd.
So I cannot run the monitor with a ...
0
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1answer
18 views
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 ...
0
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0answers
20 views
How to handle windows on multiple screens?
I've multiple screens i.e. one computer monitor and one TV. It would be preferable if, when the TV is turned off, nothing is sent to the TV but as it happens, I can have the TV turned off and ...
0
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0answers
145 views
Dell xps 15 l502 with Nvidia GT540M HDMI Secondary Display Mouse Trails - Ubuntu 13.04
My secondary display with HDMI was not working with Ubuntu 12.04. So when the new version came I thought I would just try it out and bam, it worked.
Now the secondary display which I use as an ...
1
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0answers
85 views
Bumblebee installation on Ubuntu 12.04
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 and bumblebee on my Lenovo w530 which comes with NVIDIA Optimus card by following this wiki: Ubuntu wiki
I am trying to use the DVI ports (2 ports) on my docking station to ...
0
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0answers
56 views
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 ...
2
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2answers
291 views
+100
how do to install the display drivers for a displaylink usb monitor on 13.04?
how do i install the display drivers for a displaylink usb monitor?
the monitor connected with the displaylink device has the following messages on the display:
[ 10.723468] usb 3-1.1: device ...
1
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1answer
209 views
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 ...
3
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0answers
51 views
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
326 views
Dual monitor connected to hdmi port not detecting on Dell Vostro 3750
I am using Dell Vostro 3750 laptop with 2 monitors. OS Kubuntu 13.04
1 monitor I connected with VGA and it is working fine. But another monitor connected to HDMI port is not detected. I connected ...
1
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0answers
54 views
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.
...
0
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0answers
50 views
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 ...
0
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0answers
84 views
Xorg.conf 2 identical monitors one VGA one HDMI different quality
I have two identical monitors connected on my pc but only the one connected via HDMI is "fully" recognized inside nvidia-settings.
I am trying to manually "decrypt" the xorg.conf file to make the ...
1
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0answers
225 views
Can't detect second monitor (NVIDIA Optimus)
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 on a DELL XPS with NVIDIA Optimus. I know that questions related to this have been asked several times, and I followed many tutorials and instructions but couldn't make this ...
0
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0answers
74 views
3 monitors, 2 nvidia cards and lagging
I recently added a third monitor to my setup. With some tweaking with the xorg.conf and nvidia-settings I was able to get all three working fine. However, there is an extreme lag when I have the third ...
0
votes
1answer
230 views
Dual monitor Ubuntu 12.04 - only one monitor works at a time
Let me preface this by saying I've been searching and hacking at this for a week. I've tried everything that I've ready (that I understand) on the site here and plenty of other sites. I've been a ...
1
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1answer
63 views
Can X.org Load Two Different Drivers? (Triple-Head Setup with Intel and NVidia Card)
We want to set up a 3 screens with an onboard intel graphics adapter and an nvidia card.
Both cards are recognized in lspci
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] ...
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0answers
60 views
Can't get second GPU recognized
I just stuck in another GPU to run two screens.
$ lspci | grep VGA
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G86 [GeForce 8500 GT] (rev a1)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA ...
2
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1answer
342 views
External Display Issues Lenovo W530 Ubuntu 12.10, VGA not recognized
I am running a Lenovo W530 with Ubuntu 12.10. I have tried every solution I could find for this issue but to no avail.
Ubuntu will not recognize that I have a VGA monitor connected to the laptop. I ...
2
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1answer
79 views
What does “Seperate X Screen” mean on my nvidia settings?
I have 2 video cards and 3 monitors. Earlier today, I connected my 3rd monitor. Nothing displayed on it and my other 2 screens worked GREAT. While tweaking, I modified my GeForce 8400GS so the ...
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0answers
26 views
How to setup 2nd video card
So I setup a 2nd video card. I'm currently running a GeForce GTX 460 and added this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0049MPQA4/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 to run a 3rd monitor on. ...
1
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0answers
121 views
plugging in external monitor to ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS causes unknown error at start-up
OS : ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
OS Arch. : X86_64
Graphic : Nvidia NVS 3100M
External Monitor : Samsung SyncMaster S20R315B Plus
Laptop Model : DELL Latitude E6410
today I bought "Samsung ...
0
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0answers
45 views
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 ...
1
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1answer
195 views
Ubuntu 12.04 dual monitor “unknown monitor” problem
I have a problem with my monitors, one of them is detected as samsung electric company 19", and another is unknown and I cant set resolution for it higher then 1024x768.
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0answers
142 views
can not detect second monitor
I have a Packard-Bell laptop with Nvidia graphics card and it does not detect the second monitor automatically, and from some other posts it seems that i need to change some options but i cant do it ...
1
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0answers
139 views
dual monitor setup with extended desktop
I am trying to setup a dual monitor settings in ubuntu which will extend the desktop over two monitors. That means single panel, single launcher over two monitors.
Actually I was going to setup two ...
1
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0answers
65 views
Dual Montiors, One Stuck at 640x480
I have a dual monitor setup using the ViewSonic below as my primary and the Acer as my secondary. I'm assuming that the Acer does not send the EDID so it's not picking up on the correct native ...
1
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1answer
98 views
Native resolution not available in Displays (Unity)
I have an nVidia GeForce 9600 GT with dual DVI connections in a desktop computer.
Scenario 1:
DVI-1 is connected via DVI cable to a 22" Samsung panel. Ubuntu 12.04.2 64-bit is running successfully. ...
1
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0answers
122 views
nvidia GeForce 210 2 monitors switchable, not the same desktop
I want to have zwo separate Monitors, my computer-monitor to work and my HD-TV for watching movies. I work with the normal nvidia driver from the ubuntu repositories with Ubuntu 12.04. Now I only have ...
0
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0answers
62 views
Mix AMD and Nvidia cards in X?
Is there a way to use 2 monitors on an Nvidia card and an extra monitor on an AMD card?
Acceleration would be fine, but fbdev would also suffice.
0
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0answers
194 views
nVidea 2nd Graphics card not detected
I have installed two video cards on my new desktop in which I installed Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 32 bit, each of the cards has both DVI and VGA. On the first video card I have 2 screens, which worked out of ...
2
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1answer
208 views
Did my updates in 12.10 break my display driver (nvidia) [duplicate]
I was so stoked, it's been my best linux experience to date. Everything was running grandly, til I let the updates do there thing, post reboot only one display worked which was labeled as laptop and ...
0
votes
1answer
135 views
Touchscreen calibration with dual monitors (NVidia and xinput)
I've got a NVidia GTX260 card with one regular screen above one touchscreen using the eGalax driver.
I've tried to configure the touchscreen using xinput but I can't get it right. With the normal ...
4
votes
1answer
681 views
Run Unity on external monitor with Bumblebee
I realise there are lots of other questions about this, but they are all about the basic setup. I have gotten most of the way there but I have a very specific question: I want to run full Unity on the ...
2
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0answers
135 views
twitch.tv video full screen opens on different monitor?
I have a Nvidia eVGA GeForce GTX 680 and I am running three monitors off of it. Whenever I watch the live streams on twitch.tv and I want to watch in full screen via the little button on the bottom of ...
8
votes
2answers
156 views
How to provide second monitors resolution to application?
I have a dual monitor setup, with the basic TwinView settings from my Nvidia-card (550 Ti). One monitor is my primary display (1600x900) and the other is my TV (1920*1080).
I have arranged XBMC to ...
2
votes
1answer
680 views
Ubuntu 12.10 second monitor not detected at all
I have a desktop system in which I just spent a small fortune replacing the motherboard and graphics card because I thought they were broken, and after doing so, I still have the same problem. The ...
1
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0answers
135 views
Dual Monitor problem
When I first installed 12.04 both monitors worked fine. I updated additional drivers and now I get this message.
required virtual size does not fit available size: requested=(3840, 1080), ...
0
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0answers
220 views
2nd monitor not working - Ubuntu 12.04
So I've seen a lot of these questions and tried a dozen different solutions with no luck. This is the latest one in case it matters ...
1
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1answer
252 views
Ubuntu 12.04 & Nvidia 304 Causes Two Gnome-Panel
I just upgraded from Nvidia-curent to the 304 experimental so that I could install Steam. The 304 package is working just as well as the current driver on my setup except that when I log in I get two ...
1
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2answers
564 views
Ubuntu won't do 1920x1080
Both my monitors (one over DVI other over HDMI) have a native resolution of 1920x1080 (16:9) but the only two options for resolution in the "Display" section of system settings are 800x600 (4:3) and ...
1
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0answers
91 views
triple screen setup with 2 nvidia graficcards fails - Lightdm doesn't feel responsible for the third screen
I have 2 videocards a quadro FX 380 and a Geforce 580. I want to connect 2 1920x1200 and a 2560x2540 screen to it. I use precise and the xswat PPA with newest nvidia proprietary drivers.
The built-in ...
0
votes
1answer
1k views
Second monitor not detected
I switched from 12.04 to 12.10 yesterday evening (fresh install). Now I'm struggling with my second monitor, which I can't configure.
In 12.04, after installing the system, I got a notice telling me ...
2
votes
2answers
579 views
Dual screen reset after restart
I have an Xubuntu system:
$ uname -a
Linux tnick-desktop 3.5.0-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 11 18:51:59 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
...
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0answers
416 views
Dual monitors on lenovo W520 using displayport (Ubuntu 12.04)
I have a W520 with ubuntu 12.04 32-bit installed. I also have an additional monitor that supports DisplayPort. I have the laptop connected to this external monitor, however, I cannot get ubuntu to ...
2
votes
1answer
960 views
Best triple head display setup
I'm currently running Ubuntu 12.04 with a darn good triple head display setup. I've got a VisionTek 900530 Radeon HD 5450 512MB DDR3 PCI Express video card that has two DVI outputs and one Mini ...
1
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0answers
560 views
Ubuntu 12.10 multi-monitor setup isn't working
I have tried everything I can think of and can't get a multi monitor setup working. Can anyone please point me in the right direction?
My setup:
Asus G75VW with nVidia 670M (supports 3 external ...
0
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0answers
244 views
Dual Monitor 'How To' for 12.04
I recently built my own PC and was delighted with the result, except for a problem with dual monitors. After having tried a few different combinations of hardware, I think what I really need is a ...
1
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0answers
977 views
Detect correct resolution dual monitor VGA 9800gt Ubuntu 12.10
I connected a second monitor to my 9800gt on the VGA port. The first monitor is on DVI. Both monitors have a native resolution of 1920x1080 but the second monitor doesn't get past 1360x768 and appears ...
