Multiple hardware problems.

**douggiephresh** · October 8th, 2012

Ok, pretend you are explaining this to an infant.

#1- System settings > Displays is reading as one big laptop screen.
I have 2 screens, both different sizes. I cannot, for the life of me, get "Displays" to read that I have two screens. Whenever I seem to change something in nvidia-settings, either one screen or the other stops working or goes white. Also, my main monitor, HP 2511x, does not look up to par. The resolution is set to 1920x1080 like it should, but it doesnt look crisp and when I watch a movie or scroll the internet there are lines on the screen. I think it needs a driver.

#2- I think I got the nvidia driver to work for my GTX570. If I did, it was just by typing random commands into the terminal because I have no idea what I was typing, I was just trying random bits and pieces of what I was reading online. Is there a way I can overclock my hardware (CPU, GPU) in the OS or will I have to do it through the BIOS?

3#- Will I need any other drivers or anything like it for my new setup? Alot of this is kinda confusing, I might have jumped into the deep end a little early, but then again, it doesnt seem like there is a shallow end. Any and all help is appreciated. Remember, start from square one and assume I dont know anything, lol. Thanks.

BTW, Ubunutu 12.04 64-bit

**Bashing-om** · October 8th, 2012

Hello again douggiephresh; Welcome to the forum.

How bout we simplify things and get only one monitor functional, later get the other operating ?

For now lets see what display and driver you have loaded..terminal commands:

Code:

sudo lshw -C display
lspci | grep VGA

Will tell a bunch. Then compare for compatibility .

regards <==BDQ

**douggiephresh** · October 9th, 2012

doug@doug-desktop:~$ sudo lshw -C display
[sudo] password for doug:
PCI (sysfs)
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GF110 [GeForce GTX 570 HD]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:fa000000-faffffff memory:d0000000-d7ffffff memory:d8000000-d9ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:fb000000-fb07ffff
*-display
description: Display controller
product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 09
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:57 memory:fb400000-fb7fffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:f000(size=64)
doug@doug-desktop:~$
doug@doug-desktop:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 [GeForce GTX 570 HD] (rev a1)
doug@doug-desktop:~$ ^C
doug@doug-desktop:~$

**Bashing-om** · October 9th, 2012

The i915: I am aware of some problems with some resolutions. Thinking on the xorg.conf edits for both drivers. Lemme see what I can come up with.

Is your machine a laptop or desktop ?

scratchin <==BDQ

**Bashing-om** · October 9th, 2012

At this point not looking good for the i915 driver//all solutions seem to turn off kernel mode setting ..for now I am not sure how doing this effects the Nvidia GTX 570.

This is going to be a learning process for sure! <==BDQ