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Registered: 2020-05-05

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Dual monitor not working on new install

So for some reason my 2nd monitor isn't working with my new arch install.  I know that the 2nd monitor works as it worked fine with debian and ubuntu.   Additionally it might be worth mentioning that without the nomodeset grub parameter my operating system won't even start up.

The ubuntu packages I used that I know work on arch are
libnvidia-cfg1-440:amd64
libnvidia-common-440
libnvidia-compute-418:amd64
libnvidia-compute-440:amd64
libnvidia-compute-440:i386
libnvidia-decode-440:amd64
libnvidia-decode-440:i386
libnvidia-encode-440:amd64
libnvidia-encode-440:i386
libnvidia-fbc1-440:amd64
libnvidia-fbc1-440:i386
libnvidia-gl-440:amd64
libnvidia-gl-440:i386
libnvidia-ifr1-440:amd64
libnvidia-ifr1-440:i386
nvidia-compute-utils-440
nvidia-dkms-440
nvidia-driver-418
nvidia-driver-430
nvidia-driver-440
nvidia-kernel-common-440
nvidia-kernel-source-440
nvidia-prime
nvidia-settings
nvidia-utils-440
screen-resolution-extra
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-440

I currently installed the following packages on arch:
nvidia nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia-settings xorg-server-devel opencl-nvidia

The out put for $ lspci | grep -i --color 'vga\|3d\|2d'
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK106 [GeForce GTX 645 OEM] (rev a1)

$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1600 x 900, maximum 16384 x 16384
DVI-I-0 connected primary 1600x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 440mm x 250mm
   1600x900      60.00*+
   1440x900      59.89 
   1280x800      59.81 
   1280x720      60.00 
   1152x864      75.00 
   1024x768      75.03    60.00 
   800x600       75.00    60.32    56.25 
   640x480       75.00    59.94 
DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

$ xrandr --listmonitors
Monitors: 1
0: +*DVI-I-0 1600/440x900/250+0+0  DVI-I-0

I've read the wiki so many times and I'm honestly stumped because this error is either something really obvious or something I haven't learned yet.