where did my 2nd screen go?

[Alan McKay]

This is the file I downloaded and ran

NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2.run

THis is what modinfo says after a reboot

amckay at alan-ubuntu:~$ modinfo nvidia
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.31-14-generic/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
license:        NVIDIA
alias:          char-major-195-*
alias:          pci:v000010DEd00000AA3sv*sd*bc0Bsc40i00*
alias:          pci:v000010DEd00000E00sv*sd*bc04sc80i00*
alias:          pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc02i00*
alias:          pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc00i00*
depends:
vermagic:       2.6.31-14-generic SMP mod_unload modversions
parm:           NVreg_EnableVia4x:int
parm:           NVreg_EnableALiAGP:int
parm:           NVreg_ReqAGPRate:int
parm:           NVreg_EnableAGPSBA:int
parm:           NVreg_EnableAGPFW:int
parm:           NVreg_Mobile:int
parm:           NVreg_ResmanDebugLevel:int
parm:           NVreg_RmLogonRC:int
parm:           NVreg_ModifyDeviceFiles:int
parm:           NVreg_DeviceFileUID:int
parm:           NVreg_DeviceFileGID:int
parm:           NVreg_DeviceFileMode:int
parm:           NVreg_RemapLimit:int
parm:           NVreg_UpdateMemoryTypes:int
parm:           NVreg_UseVBios:int
parm:           NVreg_RMEdgeIntrCheck:int
parm:           NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable:int
parm:           NVreg_EnableMSI:int
parm:           NVreg_MapRegistersEarly:int
parm:           NVreg_RegistryDwords:charp
parm:           NVreg_NvAGP:int


On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote:
> No takers?  I found this :
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XineramaHowTo
>
> but it does not seem to help me any.
>
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey again folks!
>>
>> This is tangentially related to my ntop issue.  After I got ntop
>> installed, it hung my machine solid when I tried to run it.  Hmmmm.
>> So I figured I jig with my video drivers just because I was suspicious
>> about them to begin with :-)
>>
>> A bit of history - I'd been running Vista on this box for a year now -
>> Acer Aspire 1200 with an integrated nVidia card that says it is a
>> GeForce 9200.  The Ubuntu 9.10 live CD ran fine and I got a good
>> display on my main VGA display - but nothing on my HDMI TV.  I'd just
>> recently bought an HDMI cable and and new LCD TV so have been finally
>> taking advantage of this feature of my PC to watch movies.
>>
>> Anyway, live CD worked fun, but when I installed and rebooted, it came
>> up and X was not working - I just got a flickery screen with a text
>> login prompt.  I could not CTRL-ALT-anything to get a text console.
>> Though I eventually did get one by luck I guess.  By this time I'd
>> read about envyng and had it downloaded, so I ran it and rebooted - it
>> worked!  I even got my HDMI TV going though it seemed a bit flakey.
>>
>> The driver that envyng got me was 185.18.36
>>
>> In the meantime I'd looked at the nVidia site manually and downloaded
>> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2.run, but did install it.
>>
>> Then after my ntop hung, I figured what the heck, I'd try the manual
>> one.  So I did envyng --uninstall-all and when I rebooted I was back
>> to my flickery screen with no X and no way to log in.  That's when I
>> discovered from another PC that Ubuntu does not have the ssh server by
>> default :-)   Luckily I'd installed webmin and was able to install the
>> ssh server with it, and get in.
>>
>> So I ran the manual NVIDIA driver, it built and installed, but when my
>> PC came back up I went into the nVidia display tool and it did not see
>> my 2nd monitor anymore!   My LCD TV.   I tried a bunch of stuff and
>> nada.  So I figured I'd put the envyng back on there (but not without
>> first trying ntop with this driver - still hung).  Not knowing how to
>> uninstall the manual driver, I just ran envyng again and it appeared
>> to install fine.  I boot, and here I am now.  The installed driver is
>> once again 185.18.36 - but still no sign of my 2nd display from within
>> the nVidia tool.
>>
>> Any help out there?   Did I do something wrong?
>>
>> I really suck at X-based Linux :-(   I've dealt with servers for many
>> years now but all my knowledge falls down when it comes to displays.
>>
>> thanks,
>> -Alan
>>
>> --
>> “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV”
>>         - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"
>>
>
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