I am having a hard time getting my dual monitors to work in Ubuntu 9.10. I have installed the Nvidia 185 driver
through the hardware updates and then do a sudo nvidia-settings to get the two monitors set up. I save
the configuration and then reboot. Then the problem begins. Upon rebooting and entering the program
it slows to a crawl and the windows take on a slow window shade behavior. I tried resetting the appearance
section but it won't respond. It just runs like molasses. I tried going to the 173 driver but that does the same
thing. I have no idea what might be causing this but I run two monitors all day long in Ubuntu 9.04 and I have
never had this problem. It appears peculiar to 9.10. Happily I installed 9.10 in an extended partition so I am in
no crises, but it is annoying and I will not shift over to the new distro until everything works. I read somewhere
that this is a problem with the Nvidia driver and this seems the case. When I remove the Nvidia driver everything
returns to normal but at a very low resolution. Anybody have any ideas why this might be happening?
Thanks much for any and all advice.
I am running an Intel MSI motherboard with Nvidia 7100 chipset, 4gigs of RAM, Duo core cpu 2.2ghz.
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