where did my 2nd screen go?

[Alan McKay]

No takers?  I found this :

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XineramaHowTo

but it does not seem to help me any.

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey again folks!
>
> This is tangentially related to my ntop issue.  After I got ntop
> installed, it hung my machine solid when I tried to run it.  Hmmmm.
> So I figured I jig with my video drivers just because I was suspicious
> about them to begin with :-)
>
> A bit of history - I'd been running Vista on this box for a year now -
> Acer Aspire 1200 with an integrated nVidia card that says it is a
> GeForce 9200.  The Ubuntu 9.10 live CD ran fine and I got a good
> display on my main VGA display - but nothing on my HDMI TV.  I'd just
> recently bought an HDMI cable and and new LCD TV so have been finally
> taking advantage of this feature of my PC to watch movies.
>
> Anyway, live CD worked fun, but when I installed and rebooted, it came
> up and X was not working - I just got a flickery screen with a text
> login prompt.  I could not CTRL-ALT-anything to get a text console.
> Though I eventually did get one by luck I guess.  By this time I'd
> read about envyng and had it downloaded, so I ran it and rebooted - it
> worked!  I even got my HDMI TV going though it seemed a bit flakey.
>
> The driver that envyng got me was 185.18.36
>
> In the meantime I'd looked at the nVidia site manually and downloaded
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2.run, but did install it.
>
> Then after my ntop hung, I figured what the heck, I'd try the manual
> one.  So I did envyng --uninstall-all and when I rebooted I was back
> to my flickery screen with no X and no way to log in.  That's when I
> discovered from another PC that Ubuntu does not have the ssh server by
> default :-)   Luckily I'd installed webmin and was able to install the
> ssh server with it, and get in.
>
> So I ran the manual NVIDIA driver, it built and installed, but when my
> PC came back up I went into the nVidia display tool and it did not see
> my 2nd monitor anymore!   My LCD TV.   I tried a bunch of stuff and
> nada.  So I figured I'd put the envyng back on there (but not without
> first trying ntop with this driver - still hung).  Not knowing how to
> uninstall the manual driver, I just ran envyng again and it appeared
> to install fine.  I boot, and here I am now.  The installed driver is
> once again 185.18.36 - but still no sign of my 2nd display from within
> the nVidia tool.
>
> Any help out there?   Did I do something wrong?
>
> I really suck at X-based Linux :-(   I've dealt with servers for many
> years now but all my knowledge falls down when it comes to displays.
>
> thanks,
> -Alan
>
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