>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Rundle <[email protected]> writes:

Peter> Peter Chubb wrote:
>> Which nvidia driver are you using?  The free one or the proprietary
>> one?

Peter> The proprietary one from nVidia.

>> With the proprietary driver, you have to run nvidia-settings to
>> enable the external output.

Peter> Have run nvidia-settings and configured it every which way I
Peter> can. Still no joy.

Hmmm.  With my machine, nvidia-settings shows two monitors attached,
with one turned off.  If you don't see that then maybe the second
output is broken or something.


Peter> manually. Maybe I'll try the "free" driver and see if it works
Peter> but suspect that the free driver hasn't been reverse engineered
Peter> enough to support dual screen mode. (no criticism of writers of
Peter> free drivers implied, they've got a tough task when the vendor

The free driver detects all attached monitors for me.  You can also
try the vesa driver -- crap performance, but it may work for you, at
least to validate that the output works.

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