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I have the nVidia GeForce 8500 GT 512MB graphics card, I put it in my system to get a speed boost and for a dual monitor setup, I don't have ...
  1. 01-12-2011 #1
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    Question nVidia GeForce 8500 GT

    I have the nVidia GeForce 8500 GT 512MB graphics card, I put it in my system to get a speed boost and for a dual monitor setup, I don't have the proprietary drivers installed

    I tried installing them, and when I did it asked for reboot, so I did, and when it came back up only one monitor was in use, and it was running very very sluggish, so I opened up the Monitors from the settings and it said to use nVidia's thing, so when I did, I enabled the second monitor, and hit apply, and it asked for a restart of Xorg, doing that came back telling me that no monitors were find, and a reboot brings me straight to tty1... I tried both the recent version and the older one, both did the same thing, I really wanna get my Compiz effects back...

    So, is there a way to get this working? I will do anything you ask if it solves the problem...

    Ubuntu 10.10
    nVidia GeForce 8500 GT
    2.6 GB RAM
    AMD Athlon 64 3400+ 2.2 GHz

    Thanks in advance!
    Micah
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  2. 01-13-2011 #2
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    Did you use the nvidia-xconfig to configure your desktops?
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    After it said that I had no monitors, I deleted the Xorg.conf file, and had to run that to get back into Gnome...
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