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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #737349
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 737349

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Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote : Re: Failed to detect second monitor

The main problem here is the fact that the nvidia driver doesn't support the RandR 1.2 protocol, therefore neither the following command nor monitors hotplug are expected to work:

xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto --left-of VGA-0 --auto