nvidia on ubuntu 10.10: switching dvi socket

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Published on 2011-06-30T15:21:14Z Indexed on 2011/06/30 16:25 UTC
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i have ubuntu 10.10 x86_64 with nvidia 9800 gt and nvidia driver version 270.41.06

my video card has two DVI sockets, but i only use single monitor configuration. Now, i think the main DVI socket might be busted, so i want to try to enable the other as the main one, however, i don't know how to achieve that. I tried just plugging the monitor in that socket but it won't just auto-detect (it would have been way too easy to just work)

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