Saturday, September 16, 2017

NVidia dual monitor set-up 11.04

I am running Ubuntu 11.04. I have an NVidia GeForce GTX 295 card installed with driver version 295.53 installed. I had struggled with this for a while a few weeks ago, and gave up. However, last week, I came into work, and noticed both monitors were working. I thought one of my tech buddies helped me out (we are a small company, and I just spoke with him today. He thought it was still not working) so I went on my merry way happy that I had dual monitor support. Unfortunately, I crashed (tried to compile a program while running a large virtual box) the computer yesterday, and when it came back up, I was back to a single monitor again. I had not changed any settings or files related to any software installed.




TL;DR: Dual monitor support started working out of the blue, and upon reboot, disappears.



Any thoughts on where to go?



A few notes:



I understand about duplicate questions. I have tried a number of solutions from a wide range of websites, including this one, but none of them seem to help, or be relevant to my situation.



My xorg.conf file is as follows (which I assume was the correct mix of settings):




# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 295.53 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-07.nvidia.com) Sat May 12 00:34:20 PDT 2012

#Section "Monitor"
#Identifier "Monitor2"
#VendorName "Unknown"
#ModelName "Unknown"
#HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
#VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
#Option "DPMS"

#EndSection
#Section "Device"
#Identifier "Device0"
#Driver "nvidia"
#VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
#BoardName "GeForce GTX 295"
#BusID "PCI:4:0:0"
#EndSection
#Section "Screen"
#Identifier "Screen1"

#Device "Device1"
#Monitor "Monitor1"
#DefaultDepth 24
#Option "TwinView" "True"
#Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select"
#SubSection "Display"
#Depth 24
#EndSubSection
#EndSection
#Section "Screen"

#Identifier "Screen2"
#Device "Device2"
#Monitor "Monitor2"
#DefaultDepth 24
#Option "TwinView" "True"
#Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select"
#SubSection "Display"
#Depth 24
#EndSubSection
#EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"

#Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
#Screen 2 "Screen2" RightOf "Screen1"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection


Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"

Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"

EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection


Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection


Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce GTX 295"
BusID "PCI:5:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"

Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce GTX 295"
BusID "PCI:4:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"

#Option "TwinView" "True"
#Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select"

Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "True"
Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection


Section "Screen"

#Option "TwinView" "True"
#Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "True"

Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

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