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I can't seem to find the answer to my configuration problem. I have 2 graphic cards, one on the motherboard (aspeed) and one on PCI-E (Nvidia). 

lspci | grep VGA
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] (rev a2)
0a:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family (rev 30)

both are recognized as providers by xrand:

xrandr --listproviders          
Providers: number : 2
Provider 0: id: 0x1e3 cap: 0x1, Source Output crtcs: 4 outputs: 4 associated providers: 0 name:NVIDIA-0
Provider 1: id: 0x41 cap: 0x0 crtcs: 1 outputs: 1 associated providers: 0 name:modesetting

BUT, the onboard GPU does not display anything past the boot process, I don't have access to it in the "Display" tool to configure screens, nor in the Nvidia X Server Settings (see screenshots) Moreover, if I switch tty (say with Ctrl+Alt+F3 for example), then the onboard GPU is the one that gets activated (consistent with the fact that the OS boots on it).

How to I get my desktop to extend to the second GPU (and 4th screen) ? How to I get Ubuntu to add that GPU to my current X server ?

Thanks!

PS: I don't have a xorg.conf, I only have xorg.conf.05192016 xorg.conf.nvidia-xconfig-original and xorg.conf.backup, and whenever I make a xorg.conf, it disappears at next reboot.

Display configuration Nvidia GPU configuration Nvidia

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  • No one to help ? :sadness:
    – Xqua
    May 24, 2016 at 23:23

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Here is why:

Aspeed is your onboard GPU, whose driver is not provided by Nvidia. Thus, it not showing up in your Nvidia X server settings should be expected.

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  • Oh I see ! Any idea how I could get it to show up there ? ?
    – Xqua
    Jan 26, 2017 at 17:54
  • Umm I am not so sure - maybe you can't since it is technically managed by Intel?
    – Ryan Li
    Jul 11, 2017 at 19:06

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