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- I have a NVIDIA GeForce 1050 Ti graphic card. I'm running LiNux Mint 18.3 when i try to install the.run file it fails. It shows the message like this: ERROR: Your appear to be running X server.
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I am very new to Linux and I'm having issues getting dual monitors to work in Linux Mint 18. I know that others have had issues with dual monitors and Linux, and I've scoured the forums and tried enough things that I broke the Cinnamon desktop at one point and it's only by luck that I managed to get back to the initial conditions.
I run Linux Mint 18 with a Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 graphics card. If I look in the Driver Manager, I can see that I'm running the driver 367.57-0ubuntu0.16.4.01. My main monitor is plugged in via a DVI cable and works great. If I plug a second monitor into the VGA port, I lose all my display settings and the second monitor never shows any input. I try to click on the Display application and it opens for a second and then closes. If I check the NVidia Server Settings application and hit 'Detect Displays', nothing happens. Only unplugging the VGA cable and restarting can return my main display settings.
I read that this could be an issue with the Nvidia drivers, so I tried:
This broke the Nvidia server settings. Restarting my computer, it defaulted to using the nouveau driver. My dual monitors worked perfectly in this setting, but I was no longer using my Nvidia GPU. I tried opening Nvidia Server Settings to switch the GPU from Intel to Nvidia and received the following error:
Googling this error led me down a rabbit hole of fixes where I tried
and then installing the driver manually by blacklisting nouveau, downloading the Nvidia driver myself, and then using the virtual console to install the driver:
or something like that. Unfortunately, when I restarted after this, Cinnamon broke and would only work in 'Fallback Mode', at which point I uninstalled the driver from the virtual console
and started up in nouveau. I reinstalled the Nvidia driver from the device manager and, somehow beyond all odds, managed to get my system back to its original state. The driver is installed and functioning:
but I'm back to a situation where plugging in a VGA monitor loses my display settings, won't open the display app, and won't detect the second display.
Can anyone offer me any guidance? As I said, I'm new to Linux and, after this experience, I think I might be over typing in random commands I found online after Googling this problem. That led to bad things.
UPDATE
Here is the xrandr output with both monitors connected. It looks as though it sees them both but for some reason I can't get the 'display' app to open, nothing ever shows on the second monitor, and Nvidia Settings won't detect a second screen.
Linux Mint 18 Nvidia Drivers
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The output of xrandr shows that two screens are detected, one called DP-1, the other one called HDMI-1. Of course I do not know which one is which, so you will have to try either of these two commands:
One of them ought to turn the silent screen on. If the screen goes black, shutdown, then on reboot try the other command.
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