Dual Monitor on Wildebeest

**eadwacer** · May 28th, 2012

I am having trouble getting dual monitors to work on my wife's new (shipped 15 May) Ubuntu 12.04 Wildebeest (Wldb2), with the recommended Nvidia drivers.

It appears that the Nvidia card (GE Force GE 210) will support a DVI monitor or a VGA monitor, but not both. Plugging both in gives me a 'no signal' on the VGA. I tried plugging in the DVI to the DVI socket on the PC, but then only the VGA worked.

System Settings / Monitors only shows one monitor (and it thinks my Samsung is a laptop), and System Settings / Details says it doesn't know what kind of video card I have.

Do I need to get some HDMI cables?

**eadwacer** · May 29th, 2012

SOLVED: Had to open a terminal and sudo nvidia-settings. It doesn't seem to be available any other way (like through System Settings). That seems to have done the job.

**isantop** · May 30th, 2012

Originally Posted by eadwacer

SOLVED: Had to open a terminal and sudo nvidia-settings. It doesn't seem to be available any other way (like through System Settings). That seems to have done the job.

It's a bit of a caveat to the Nvidia drivers: their configuration utility isn't the most user friendly, and the drivers themselves lack support for the protocol that allows Ubuntu's built-in configuration tool to work.

Nvidia have recently released a new version of their drive that does include support for this protocol. It should be packaged and available in Ubuntu soon. This should solve any remaining problems you have.