{"id":354,"date":"2011-11-22T15:12:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T20:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/djcp\/?p=354"},"modified":"2011-11-22T15:12:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T20:12:58","slug":"dual-monitors-under-kubuntu-11-10-with-nvidia-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/2011\/11\/dual-monitors-under-kubuntu-11-10-with-nvidia-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dual Monitor support under Kubuntu 11.10 with nvidia drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a pretty annoying regression in nvidia support under Kubuntu (and probably regular ole&#8217; Ubuntu) 11.10 &#8211; dual monitor support is busted. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>Confusion abounds on how to fix this, but it seems all you need to do is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>uninstall <strong>nvidia-173<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>install <strong>nvidia-current<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>remove <strong>\/etc\/x11\/xorg.conf<\/strong>\u00a0to cause another one to be regenerated, and then<\/li>\n<li>Reboot. You&#8217;ll be using a newer driver and be able to configure twinview via <strong>nvidia-settings<\/strong>\u00a0per the usual.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>You&#8217;re just updating the nvidia driver, that&#8217;s all. This just happens to be the easiest way.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a pretty annoying regression in nvidia support under Kubuntu (and probably regular ole&#8217; Ubuntu) 11.10 &#8211; dual monitor support is busted. Ouch. Confusion abounds on how to fix this, but it seems all you need to do is: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/2011\/11\/dual-monitors-under-kubuntu-11-10-with-nvidia-drivers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17318,17322,4115,1835],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kubuntu","tag-nvidia","tag-sysadmin","tag-ubuntu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}