Comments on: Dual Monitors with NVidia in Ubuntu

By: kay

kay — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:15:36 +0000

Thank you very much, it works for me, got my dual screen.
This si what did the trick for me.

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Now go back under the heading “Screen”. Let’s add a few lines:

##This turns on NVidia’s TwinView
Option “TwinView”
##Here I’m setting the resolution to the individual monitors.
Option “MetaModes” “1280×1024 1280×1024?

By: Michael Kerr

Michael Kerr — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:34:53 +0000

Thankyou!

Followed these instructions and it worked first try.
I didn’t see the Nvida displayed but I forged ahead anyway and rebooted wherever ctrl-alt-backspace was indicated.

Mike

By: brian

brian — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:35:16 +0000

Hi guys, I figured this out with natty 11.04, and wanted to post what i did. From the arch linux wiki, i used
nvidia-xconfig --twinview
to enable twinview, then
nvidia-settings --load-config-only
to make sure the settings pages loaded. Then in unity i went into the nvidia settings program and tweaked. Much easier then editing the x11 file manually.

By: Gotrek

Gotrek — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:20:29 +0000

One thing. Change double quotes in this article. My X couldn’t parse the xorg.conf file and I wasted half a hour to figure that I copied and pasted it with strange qoutes signs…

By: Zoffix Znet

Zoffix Znet — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:47:07 +0000

Hey, this tut worked for me, but I still can’t figure out how to make the montiors display SEPARATE X screens. I had this working on older Ubuntu, but now it broke.

I tried suggestions in the comments, but when I use nVidia’s GUI to change to Separate X screens, Xorg doesn’t load at all.

BTW: seeing a few comments on the subject… if Xorg doesn’t load for you, you can press CTRL+F2 (or CTRL+ALT+F2) to get into plan text-mode shell, log in there and copy over your good, backup xorg.conf file.

By: ARMNHIE

ARMNHIE — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:43:35 +0000

Alright I’ve been at this for weeks and I apologize to comment right after myself. I’ve been trying to get a second monitor working with Ubuntu. I’ve watched numerous videos showing how to use the NVIDIA XServer Settings and I’ve done exactly what they’ve said to do. I’ve read numerous forums about this and nothing is working. I have an 18 in acer monitor I’m trying to hook up to my laptop via VGA. When I connect the second monitor to my laptop and even after doing everything in Nvidia XServer Settings right, the second monitor still displays a “No input signal” message. VERY FRUSTRATING! I’ve been at this for some time now. Here is a copy of everything in my xorg conf: And for some reason I get the feeling I’m missing some stuff. Check it out.
PLEAS PLEASE PLEASE help me out.

Section “Monitor”

# HorizSync source: builtin, VertRefresh source: builtin
Identifier “Monitor0″
VendorName “Unknown”
ModelName “Seiko”
HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0
VertRefresh 60.0
Option “DPMS”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “Device0″
Driver “nvidia”
VendorName “NVIDIA Corporation”
BoardName “GeForce Go 6150″
EndSection

Section “Screen”

# Removed Option “TwinView” “1″
# Removed Option “metamodes” “CRT: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0″
# Removed Option “TwinView” “0″
# Removed Option “metamodes” “nvidia-auto-select +0+0″
# Removed Option “TwinView” “True”
# Removed Option “MetaModes” “nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select”
Identifier “Screen0″
Device “Device0″
Monitor “Monitor0″
DefaultDepth 24
Option “TwinView” “0″
Option “TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder” “DFP-0″
Option “metamodes” “DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0″
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

By: ARMNHIE

ARMNHIE — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:33:26 +0000

This may be a stupid question but where is the “module section” you were mentioning in the beginning?

By: Kristinn

Kristinn — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:40:59 +0000

Hi guys

This thread was a great help, thanks.

My solution was using the Nvidia GUI to adjust everything to taste (dual monitors - twin view). Then I opened the preview (there is a button for that) and copied the settings. After that I opened the config file via: sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and pasted my settings, saved and closed.

No problem after that.

Hope this helps.

regards,

By: Tejas

Tejas — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:25:49 +0000

Hi, the live disk didn’t have a ‘repair’ option. however I booted using the recovery mode (terminal mode) and then restored the xorg.config file through command line. It booted after.

I still have no gotten to having dual monitors on ubuntu though …

Thanks for replying

By: BigBrad

BigBrad — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:52:26 +0000

Hello
Tejas,have you tried using your ubuntu disc to boot from the cd to correct your files or back up the important data you have so that you may reinstall if necessary?

By: Tejas

Tejas — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 02:07:31 +0000

Hi!

Followed your instructions upto the point of changing the xorg.conf file… and then I restarted.
And now, linux (ubuntu 10.04) does not log on ever. I am not even able to log on to change the file back to its back up!
Any suggestions?
I have a whole load of data and programs on my linux partition and reinstalling ubuntu is the worst possible thing for me right now! Please reply…

By: David

David — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:16:17 +0000

I am new. I tried it, but it didn’t work.
What worked was finding the resolutions of the two screens and changing the “Absolute” and “to right of” to something that made sense to me.
I now have one desktop across two screens.
I love this stuff.
Thanks.

By: Grave_xXx

Grave_xXx — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:12:12 +0000

Hey im just curious, is there a way to do this on windows xD sorry for posting on ubuntu forum not sure if its legal but I really want a program as such =)

By: FranzJosef-I

FranzJosef-I — Sun, 16 May 2010 10:27:20 +0000

@Linuxluver: same issue for me, wallpaper no longer fills both devices (either centered across both, but not stretched; or stretched individually across each device). Where did you file the bug report? I want to support it.

By: Linuxluver

Linuxluver — Sun, 09 May 2010 02:52:41 +0000

I have an NVidia dual-monitor card in my PC. It worked fine with Karmic Koala and I could display a background/ wallpaper across two monitors at a combined resolution of 2560×1024.

When I upgraded to Lucid Lynx, I lost this capability and now any wallpaper is displayed entirely on EACH screen rather than spread across both. A bug has been logged for it….but it’s almosy enough to make me go back to Karmic as there has been no obvious advantage whatever in upgrading to Lucid. My DVD-RW drive is now also behaving strangely….unable to read/write to some disks it created prior to the upgrade.

By: Snowenvy

Snowenvy — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:00:08 +0000

I have used this tutorial so much. Thanks for writing it. Lately though, they have released a GUI through Nvidia on the ubuntu software synaptics that will actually set it up and is easy to install. So you don’t actually have to mess with Xorg.

You just search for nvidia-xconfig.

do a quick little command prompt:
sudo nvidia-xconfig
log out, log back in and it has set up all of the computers in our offices.

It’s worked on all types of cards as well.

By: frank

frank — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:09:32 +0000

Just found something that worked for me, as I tried the steps above and they didn’t work.

incredibly short

in terminal window type in:
sudo nvidia-xconfig [enter] (maybe prompted for password)
sudo nvidia-settings [enter]
in the NVidia settings window, then click save configuration, done.

By: ponteaus

ponteaus — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:52:40 +0000

Thanks!! That “RenderAccel” option proved to be the magic line of code. All of a sudden, everything is beautiful

By: ubnoob

ubnoob — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:25:22 +0000

Thank you soo much for this tutorial. Worked excellent and gave me a little lesson. I actually understood what I was doing and am able to apply this to other tasks in Linux. Much appreciated

By: jandrioli

jandrioli — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:31:24 +0000

Please vote on Adobe’s website so they will fix the twinview-fullscreen bug: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-562

there less than 50 votes right now!