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tarun.hellknight

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Registered: 2010-11-30

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Configuring dual-monitors with different resolutions with NVIDIA

So here's the issue. I have two displays, AOC F22, 1080P, LCD monitor which I use as the main display connected via DVI cable to NVIDIA GTX 260 graphics card. The second is my old LCD TV which has a resolution of 1366x768 @ 60 Hz which is connected via VGA cable as it doesn't have DVI port and my graphics card doesn't have a HDMI output. Now, I have installed official propreitary drivers from NVIDIA. I did nvidia-xconfi and it generated a xorg.conf file. Then, I went through the dual monitor page of the Arch Wiki & configured the 10-monitors.conf file too.

The xorg.conf file is

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 304.88  (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-06)  Wed Mar 27 15:32:58 PDT 2013

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
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      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

and the 10-monitor.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "DualScreen"
    Screen       0 "Screen0"
    Screen       1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" #Screen1 at the right of Screen0
    Option         "TwinView" "1" #To move windows between screens
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    Option         "Enable" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor1"
    Option         "Enable" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    Screen         0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device1"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    Screen         1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth          24
        Modes          "1920x1080_60.00"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen1"
    Device         "Device1"
    Monitor        "Monitor1"
    DefaultDepth   24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth          24
	Modes	       "1366x768_60.00"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

But all i get on the LCD TV is a blank display and nothing else. I'm running GNOME 3 and everything is updated on a 64-bit system. Can somebody figure this out?