Thursday, March 12, 2009

Getting dual monitors to run (NVIDIA) in Ubuntu

This one was kinda tricky. Spent quite a while wondering WTF and Googleing my life away. It was actually pretty simple.

First of all install the graphics drivers (NVIDIA in my case). To do this you can either go to System --> Administration --> Hardware Drivers (pick the latest) or System --> Preferences --> Appearance --> click on the Visual Effects Tab and choose Extra (it will then prompt a driver DL though it didn't use the latest one for me).

After it is done installing, it will then state that it needs a restart to take effect.

After restarting, fire up the command line (Applications -- Accessories --> Terminal) type the below:

sudo nvidia-settings

A window titled 'NVIDIA X Server Settings' will then pop up and from there go to the Display Configuration and set the TwinView settings properly.

Example of mine:
All done! :)

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