Problems, two monitors, DVI and HDMI

[Hoyland84]

I can't manage to get two monitors up and running. I have one 22" 1680x1050 LCD Monitor through DVI and one 32" 1366x768 LCD TV connected to the computer through HDMI. My problem is that I can't figure out how to get any signal through the HDMI to the TV.

I have NVIDIA driver 173 working fine with a GeForce 8200 on 64bit Intrepid.

I have tried TwinView and googled for hours searching for a solution, trying to enable TwinView. I have not found a way yet. In "NVIDIA X Server Settings" --> "X Server Display Configuration", "Seperate X screen" is the only available option. "Disabled" and "TwinView" are both greyed out. "Detect displays" doesn't give any results.

I installed Ubuntu with only the DVI monitor connected.

I am only going to run xbmc in the TV monitor so there might be alternatives to TwinView, but either way I don't have the skillz needed to modify xorg.conf.

Here's a copy of my xorg.conf:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder58)  Wed Oct  1 15:12:53 PDT 2008

# commented out by update-manager, HAL is now used
#Section "InputDevice"
#
#    # generated from default
#    Identifier     "Mouse0"
#    Driver         "mouse"
#    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
#    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
#    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
#    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
#EndSection
# commented out by update-manager, HAL is now used
#Section "InputDevice"
#
#    # generated from default
#    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
#    Driver         "kbd"
#EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
    Option         "TwinView" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

I need help to rewrite this file to support both of my monitors. Please ask for more info, if needed.

[Hoyland84]

I plugged my TV through VGA instead. The driver detected the TV and I switched to TwinView and restarted. This resulted in no signal on the computer monitor and a 800x600 resolution on the TV. I could not get any signal to the computer monitor before I unplugged the VGA from the TV and rebooted.

Now I'm stuck with 1280x720 resolution on my 1680x1050 screen. The driver stopped working and now won't install properly. I have pretty good experience on how to install the Nvidia driver by now. I have tried four different ways with no success. I just can't get it to work and I am getting fed up with stupid Ubuntu/Linux. There's just always something...