They worked from the live CD because you were using the open source Nouveau driver. I couldn't set up the nvidia driver either for dual monitors but when I did a fresh install without the internet (and hence no binary drivers), dual monitors worked fine.
Quite a few people are having a problem with nvidia drivers and dual monitors, check out this thread. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1859730 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/877051 Title: dual monitors not recognized To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-173/+bug/877051/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
