Ubuntu Installation :: Can't Get 3 Monitors Working In 10.10

Oct 23, 2010

I just got a new comp and trying to get a tri-monitor setup working. I have a 460 GTX which has 2 dvi & 1 mini hdmi and only 2 of those will work at a time (2xdvi or 1xdvi 1xhdmi) So while in the Nvidia control panel I select the 2 as separate x-screen but the 3rd wont allow that option. When I activate the Xinerama it doesn't seem to make any difference.

EDIT: Also the only way to get the 3 showing up in the control panel is to set 2 as separate x screen and 1 as twin view...But when I hit apply it says: Failed to set MetaMode (1) 'DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select @1920x1080 +0+0' (Mode 1920x1080, id: 0) on X screen 0.

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General :: Ubuntu 3 Monitors, 2 Video Cards Not Working?

Mar 14, 2011

I'm trying to get ubuntu working w/ 3 monitors. I have been given 2 video cards

lspci | grep VGA
20:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 LE [Radeon HD 3450]
25:05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1)

I have had it working w/ two monitors plugged into the ATI correctly. and the nVidia monitor blank. Now I have the nVidia monitor working and one monitor from the ATI working, but I can't seem to get the last monitor to show anything. It does show the boot screen and works up until the point you are presented w/ the login screen for ubuntu, then it disappears and the nVidia monitor turns on. Might I have something wrong w/ my xorg.conf or do I need to do something more to get this to work? Currently I'm seeing this error in my Xorg.0.log file, but I'm not sure where to go from here:

[ 24.746] (EE) RADEON(2): reusing fd for second head
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 270.29 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-02.nvid

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Below is one of the configs I've been messing around with:

Code:
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Now, ive got 3 video cards to play with. An Nvidia Geforce4MX, an ancient matrox PCI, and the onboard intel VGA out.

Mind you, ALL of these cards work just fine on their own. All of these will work dual and even tripple monitors in XP. But i hate XP.

Now when following th xinerama tutorial, i took bits and peices from the XORG.conf files of each card to make my own..and ALL I GET on boot is "No Screens Found" so i have to remove matrox card (If plugged in) and reconfigure the X server. otherwise if i dont remove the card i get a blank screen.

Now heres the config Fedora gave me for the working NVidia card (singlehead mind you)

Code:

Now heres the one i came up with for the AGP and Matrox PCI Card:

Code:

Whats interesting is, is when i run the grep command to get the PCI id, it only shows the one card. Same when i run system-config-display, it will only detect one card/one monitor. So that leads me to beleive i have to force Fedora SOMEWHERE before it reads Xorg to detect more than one VGA card.

So right now as i type, i'm running the Nvidia, and the Intel...but the intel is just blank. i checked the log file on Xorg, but see NO intel/Matrox anywhere in the file, which makes me wonder if the system is even seeing it.

I do NOT want to go back to windows...and actually when i get my mac back, i think i'll keep this linux machien chugging on the 2nd LCD channels, just because its been so pleasant to deal with.

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1) My Desktop background stretches over both screens.
2) My Display seems to think I have dual monitors attached permanently.
3) fn + F4 only blacks out screen for a few second.

get this sorted so that when I plug-in the external monitor it works and when I unplug and reboot it goes back to one screen

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I've just installed 10.04 on an old system.

Hardware is:

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- Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R motherboard with 3 gig ram, few TB of hard-drive
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On the old setup (8.04) the monitors were set up as twinview, 1680x1050 each, no problems. On the new setup (10.04) my old xorg.conf (see below) doesn't work and nvidia xserver settings refuses to detect my second (digital) monitor at any resolution greater than 640x480.

I've tried messing with xorg.conf to no avail and google doesn't appear to be my friend.

Here's the old xorg.conf file that worked in 8.04 but refuses to even boot under 10.04:

Code:

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2:Use Xinerama, sacrificing randr, and composite extensions. I also attempted to do this, with some limited success. I could get the NVIDIA screen to be right of the ATI, but I couldn't get 2 independent outputs running on the ATI card, even with "ZapohHeads" appended to one of the device sections for my ATI card.

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Code:
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03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400GS] [10de:10c3] (rev a2)

Both cards have monitors plugged into their VGA ports, but only one of the monitors shows a display. The other monitor goes into power saver mode right after start up. Nvidia X Server settings only shows a single graphics card (the 8200) and a single monitor (detect monitor finds nothing). Going through Prefences: Monitors also only shows a single monitor and doesn't detect a thing when detect monitors is clicked.

Monitor one has 1440 x 900 resolution and I'm not sure what the resolution of Monitor two is supposed to be, but it displays rather nicely at being set to 1440 x 900.

Both graphics cards are detected and usable in Vista, but a quick switch of the plugs shows that only the 8200 is registering in Ubuntu.

Ideally I want to have a dual monitor set up, with one screen showing documents or pictures with the other using Gimp or Blender.

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See my example picture from my Win 7 dual boot below:

Two Monitors? Ridiculous... by mattlach, on Flickr

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2.) When using Xinerama Compiz/XGL is disabled, making the desktop feel awfully flat.

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This is on the top computer in my signature.

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pci/igd
igd/pci
igd

etc.

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I've tried all of the 3 above settings, and even when I set it to just igd, lspci still sees both my adapters. It identifies them correctly, and it works perfectly, detecting the monitor and knows the resolutions for each - just not both at the same time.

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Code:
$ lspci
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Mar 1, 2010

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