Peter Chubb wrote: [snip]
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.
The nvidia-settings software detects the second monitor fine, and displays it in the dialog box, allows me to "enable it" as twin view and re-configures the desktop as if all is there. The only thing is the monitor itself doesn't come out of power save mode. If I switch to analog, and back to digital, the power light stays "green" for a few moments then switches to power save. So I guess it's not just not responding to a "wake up" signal, it doesn't see any video signal at all. Maybe it's just as simple as a dud splitter cable, but it does allow the card to detect the monitor correctly, so the cable is good for that function so cable would have to be partially faulty, broken pin /wire on the video side. Unfortunately I don't have any other kit to try to eliminate that possibility. Might be able to temporary install windows and see if that works dual screen, if so then I know it's a software issue not a hardware one.
The free driver detects all attached monitors for me.
Hummmm, the "nv" driver only shows the primary screen it doesn't detect the other screen.
You can also try the vesa driver -- crap performance, but it may work for you, at least to validate that the output works.
Thanks for that info, I'll give that a go. If I can prove that the hardware works with just one configuration then I know it's a software issue.
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