No signal on second monitor using most recent nvidia drivers

[tim.rittman]

One of my monitors receives no signal when using nvidia 185 or 195 drivers installed either through jockey or downloaded and installed from the nvidia site. Using the 173 driver works, but performance is much poorer, particularly 3D graphics and flash. One monitor that is connected via a VGA->DVI converter (iiyama prolite E380s) works in either DVI connector, whereas my second monitor connected via a DVI cable (GNR monitor - MR19E-AAAD) does not work in either connector.

I have an 8600 GTS card and am using Lucid AMD64 version. I had both monitors working previously with 180 drivers on Jaunty, but I am unable to install these via Jockey/from the repositories and they fail to compile from the nvidia website.

Any thoughts or suggestions welcome.

I'm only at home in front of my desktop at weekends for the next couple of months, so apologies if my testing/replies are a little slow!

Cheers,

Tim

[tim.rittman (tim-rittman)]

Got it working using information from this thread: http://70.87.46.147/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2252094

My xorg.config looks like:

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Thu Apr 22 20:36:15 PDT 2010

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Thu Apr 22 20:35:23 PDT 2010

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "Layout0"
    Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
    Screen 1 "Screen1" 1024 0
    InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
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 "InputDevice"

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

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Monitor0"
    VendorName "Unknown"
    ModelName "CRT-1"
    HorizSync 30.0 - 80.0
    VertRefresh 55.0 - 75.0
    Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

    # HorizSync source: xconfig, VertRefresh source: xconfig
    Identifier "Monitor1"
    VendorName "Unknown"
    ModelName "GNR TS902"
    HorizSync 30.0 - 80.0
    VertRefresh 55.0 - 75.0
    Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device0"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName "GeForce 8600 GTS"
    Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0,CRT-1"
    BusID "PCI:3:0:0"
    Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device1"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName "GeForce 8600 GTS"
    BusID "PCI:3:0:0"
    Screen 1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device "Device0"
    Monitor "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/etcX11/edid.bin"
    Option "NoPowerConnectorCheck" "True"
    Option "TwinView" "0"
    Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth 24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen1"
    Device "Device1"
    Monitor "Monitor1"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Option "NoPowerConnectorCheck" "True"
    Option "TwinView" "0"
    Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth 24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more supported; please open a new bug report if the actual archive found version also has the same issue.