Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Nvidia GT220 Dual Monitor on Xubuntu12.10

I run into a problem when install Xubuntu on one desktop which has GT220 Nvidia video card.

Thanks for this post,

http://italyherald.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/how-to-fix-ubuntu-12-04-nvidia-gt220-freezes-with-dual-monitor-and-hdmi-audio/

I successfully fixed the issue with Nvidia 304.60 linux driver.

Firstly download Nvidia 304.60 driver
32bit from
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/304.43/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.43.run
64bit from
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/304.43/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.43.run
Save it to home directory

Remove existing video driver by


sudo apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

And add those lines into  /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
blacklist vga16fb
blacklist nouveau
blacklist rivafb
blacklist nvidiafb
blacklist rivatv



Reboot and during start press Ctrl-Alt-F1  to enter first console mode.
Turn off GUI by

sudo service lightdm  stop

If there is no command line terminal try press Ctrl-Alt-F3 login then run command
sudo sh ./NVidiaTabToCompleteTheFilesName.run



Thursday, November 1, 2012

Dual Monitor on Xubuntu

Install arandr from ubuntu software center and run it then set monitors layout properly and save settings into a shell script
Mine looks like

#!/bin/sh
xrandr --output VGA-1 --mode 1920x1080 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output DVI-I-1 --mode 1920x1080 --pos 1920x0 --rotate normal --output HDMI-1 --off

Add it into start up session in ubuntu session and startup settings.