Just to preface, this is the most annoyed I have ever been in my life and I'm kind of on the verge of a mental breakdown because my dual monitors are ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL in my homework filled life.
I have Ubuntu 15.10 and up until today my dual monitor setup worked just fine. I booted it up today to find that my monitors are no longer independant; they are mirrored. Needless to say, this is completely useless. I first attempted to go into the settings and fix this, but it only shows one monitor like below.
Of course it doesn't detect it, why would it?
Obviously I tried to hit detect monitors, but that didn't do anything. It didnt show a loading icon, and it didnt open any other windows.
This is the basic picture, which brings me to my question:
How in the mother@%$#ing world do I fix this and get my dual monitors back?
(preferably without reinstalling linux)
ABOUT MY SYSTEM
HARDWARE
Processor - AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera 8-Core
Graphics - AMD Radeon R9 290x
Motherboard - ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 AM3
Software
Ubuntu - 15.10
Graphics Driver - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Hawaii Pro: Radeon 290
WHAT I'VE TRIED
#1 I tried reinstalling my driver for my graphics card because I saw the system description and I thought that it wasn't using my graphics card (which is weird because I'm pretty sure both my monitors are plugged into that) but that wasn't it (I'm 98% sure)
#2 I tried a simple system update but once again I am rejected by the software updater
W: Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 15.04 _Vivid Vervet_ - Release amd64 (20150422)/dists/vivid/main/binary-amd64/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
W: Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 15.04 _Vivid Vervet_ - Release amd64 (20150422)/dists/vivid/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
W: Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 15.04 _Vivid Vervet_ - Release amd64 (20150422)/dists/vivid/main/binary-i386/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
W: Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 15.04 _Vivid Vervet_ - Release amd64 (20150422)/dists/vivid/restricted/binary-i386/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
I tried fixing that but I quickly got lost in many random forums and became mentally overwhelmed.
Another quick question: will reinstalling 15.04 or 15.10 help? because I'm all ears at this point.
