<div dir="ltr">First of all thank you for coming back to me. Please see below my replies. <br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 4:34 PM, michael norman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michaeltnorman@gmail.com" target="_blank">michaeltnorman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 18/09/14 15:50, Christina Nicolau wrote:<br>
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Hi everybody<br>
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I am hoping there's anyone here able to help me set up dual monitors on<br>
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with the latest Gnome desktop.<br>
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Here's the story:<br>
- Dell Precision desktop<br>
- Fresh Ubuntu install<br>
- Fresh Gnome install (configured to run on top of lightDM)<br>
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What I want: dual monitors display (I have one on VGA and the other on<br>
DVI). By dual monitors display I mean having 2 monitors, moving windows<br>
between them, maximizing a window will expand it to just one monitor etc.<br>
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I have here Linux Mint 17 which I think is the equivalent of your Ubuntu.<br>
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I am running Mate desktop and the video card is NVIDIA . I installed the same driver you did from Additional Drivers. Result here is it just works.<br>
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I am unfamiliar with Ubuntu and Gnome but if Gnome has an equivalent of the hardware monitor settings button in whatever is the equivalent of Control Center here check first that 2 monitors are found. If not uncheck same image on all monitors.<br></blockquote><div><br><div>You seem to be correct. The NVIDIA X Server Settings just does not
see my second monitor. So uncheck same image on all monitors does not even exist in my settings (I have seen a screen shot of how that settings window is supposed to look like but mine does not have that option. Presumably is pops up just when multiple monitors are detected!). <br><br></div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Failing that you do not say which NVIDIA card you are running, you should check that, have a look on the NVIDIA linux drivers page for the best driver available. If that differs from v 331.38 look again at the options you find in Additional Drivers and see if the NVIDIA recommendation is there. If it is try that.<br>
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If it isn't you will need to install the correct driver yourself. The NVIDIA docs will tell you how to do that. Other options will be found on any Ubuntu forum.<br>
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Other than all that without knowing what your hardware is it is difficult to advise further<br></blockquote><div><br>I will try checking Nvidia website for a more
recent driver. <br><br>In the meantime, some info that could be considered
useful: my hardware info says I have one display of 3840x1080 and 2
monitors of 1940x1080, which seems to be correlated with what's
happening. It's just doing some sort of streching instead of dual monitors
but I can't find how to turn that off. <br><br>Also, my xorg.conf says, if that's of any use: <br><br>Section "ServerLayout"<br> Identifier "layout"<br> Screen 0 "nvidia"<br> Inactive "intel"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Device"<br> Identifier "intel"<br> Driver "intel"<br> BusID "PCI:0@0:2:0"<br> Option "AccelMethod" "SNA"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Screen"<br> Identifier "intel"<br> Device "intel"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Device"<br> Identifier "nvidia"<br> Driver "nvidia"<br> BusID "PCI:1@0:0:0"<br> Option "ConstrainCursor" "off"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Screen"<br> Identifier "nvidia"<br> Device "nvidia"<br> Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "on"<br> Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "CRT"<br>EndSection<br><br></div><div>And my hardware info is: <br><br>-PCI Devices-<br>PCI bridge : Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])<br><b>VGA compatible controller : Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])<br></b>PCI bridge : Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev d4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])<br>PCI bridge : Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #2 (rev d4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])<br>ISA bridge : Intel Corporation C226 Series Chipset Family Server Advanced SKU LPC Controller (rev 04)<br>SMBus : Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)<br><b>VGA compatible controller : NVIDIA Corporation GK107GL [Quadro K600] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])</b><br>PCI bridge : Texas Instruments XIO2001 PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])<br><br></div><div>I have to say I have no idea why there's two of those things!<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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