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[Bernhard Hohensinn <bernhard.hohensinn@xxxxxxxxx>]

@SeltiX and Jase,

I have the same problem since Lucid, my external monitor works out of
the box but the laptop's display remains black. I use a Sony Vaio S11
laptop with a Nvidia Geforce 310m. I solved the problem in the following
way:

1. I downloaded the 'softmccs.exe'-file, I think form the following URL: www.entechtaiwan.com/files/softMCCS.exe
2. With that program I made a custom 'EDID.bin'-file for the laptop's display in Windows.
3. I copied that file to /etc/X11.
4. Then, I customized the xorg.conf in /etc/X11, especially the following 2 lines are necessarily:
   Option         "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0,DFP-2"
    Option         "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/etc/X11/EDID.bin"
   
    DFP-0 is the laptop's display, DFP-2 is the external monitor.
5. The rest of the configuration of the xorg.conf, I made in the graphical interface for the nvidia-driver, especially the settings for
     the twin-view-mode.
6. I attach my xorg.conf as it works very good on my system.

I hope, this will help you to make your display work.

Bernhard


** Attachment added: "xorg.conf"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/655078/+attachment/1685382/+files/xorg.conf

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