Thursday, March 23, 2017

12.04 - Dual displays not working properly, getting only low resolution

My hardware:



I just installed Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (Precise Pangolin) and I have been unable to get my dual 1920x1080 monitors working properly with my GeForce GTX 670 FTW.



The problem:




Whenever I get to the login screen both of my monitors display a purple back ground with small white dots and are mirroring each other (I can still see the mouse and move it).



In order to see the log in screen I have to unplug one of my monitors then plug it back in to the GPU, when I do this both monitors are now showing the login screen properly but are mirrored and stuck at a 1024x768 resolution and when I move my mouse to the right side of the screen the desktop slides over and disappears. When I move the mouse back over to the left of the screen the desktop slides back into place.



What I have tried:



I went into the display setting and tried to fix this but I am only given 1024x768 and 800x600 resolution options and when I unchecked mirror displays and click apply it defaults back to mirroring displays.



I believe this is a driver issue but I have no idea now to fix it ideas?

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