After disabling my second monitor via system settings, I cannot turn it on anymore with that setting. What did work is to enable it with the NVIDIA settings, but after writing that to Xorg I think I totally screwed up the xorg.conf
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When I unplug the second monitor and plug it back in the display comes back. But once I log out and back in the display is black again.
Since I really have almost no idea what I am doing I need help to clean up this Xorg mess.
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 361.28 (buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-04) Wed Feb 3 16:26:48 PST 2016
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 361.28 (buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-04) Wed Feb 3 16:27:53 PST 2016
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Eizo EV2736W"
HorizSync 31.0 - 89.0
VertRefresh 59.0 - 61.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Eizo S2411W"
HorizSync 31.0 - 76.0
VertRefresh 59.0 - 61.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce GTX 980"
BusID "PCI:5:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce GTX 980"
BusID "PCI:5:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
# Removed Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-2"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "DP-2: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "DP-2: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DVI-I-1: nvidia-auto-select +2560+0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "DP-2: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DVI-I-1: 1920x1200 +2560+0"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Coolbits" "5"
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-4"
Option "metamodes" "DP-2: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DVI-I-1: nvidia-auto-select +2560+0"
Option "SLI" "Off"
Option "MultiGPU" "Off"
Option "BaseMosaic" "off"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Coolbits" "5"
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "metamodes" "DVI-I-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
Option "SLI" "Off"
Option "MultiGPU" "Off"
Option "BaseMosaic" "off"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection