DVI monitor won't wake up?

[clinstid at gmail.com]

Cole -

One thing you should note is that Ubuntu includes the proprietary  
Nvidia drivers in their distribution, but by default, X.org will pick  
up the open source "nv" driver.  I think if you switch to using the  
"nvidia" driver in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, it should fix most,  
if not all of your problems.

However, there are a few things you need to make sure are installed  
before you do this.  First, you need the restricted modules package  
for your kernel version.  A good way to find the right package name  
is to do the following:

	apt-cache search restricted `uname -r`

(just in case you didn't notice, the "quotes" around uname -r are  
actually back-ticks)

Then "apt-get install" the package.  The second thing you need to  
install is the actual Nvidia X.org driver.  I believe this package is  
"nvidia-glx".  Lastly, you'll probably also want to install the  
Nvidia configuration tool, "nvidia-settings".  There are other Nvidia  
packages as well and you might want to look through them to see if  
any of them make any sense for you.

In order to install these, you may need to add a few new repositories  
to /etc/apt/sources.list, but I would give this a try first and if  
you can't find them, then make sure you have the universe and  
multiverse repositories enabled.

A little off topic...

This is my first post to the list, so hi everyone!  I've been lurking  
for a while and have enjoyed the discussions and useful information  
broadcast here.  So, thanks! :)

	- Chris

On Apr 7, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Cole Tuininga wrote:

>
> Well, I finally got around to installing the Wintendo side of the  
> system
> last night and guess what?  DVI works just fine there.
>
> I'm thinking more and more that this might be a Twinview issue.  The
> Windows system (well, the Nvidia app that came with the drivers)
> recognized not only that I had two outputs on the video card, but also
> that I had both of them hooked up.  It automatically set Twinview for
> clone mode.
>
> Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to give setting up clone mode
> manually a try this weekend.
>
> -- 
> Cole Tuininga <colet at code-energy.com>
>
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