Celeb Glow
general | April 04, 2026

Ubuntu 14.04,NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [NVS 5400M] laptop monitor problem

I am having a problem with making the laptop monitor work with the latest ubuntu. I am using optimus on lenovo t430 at the moment and when I try to activate the laptop monitor I get an extended virtual screen on which all my windows are also stretched and it looks like this: I tried using different drivers but with no avail. It only worked with the open source driver but then the mouse pointer was dissapearing, animations where choppy etc. etc. These are my installed drivers at the moment , even withouth the xorg-edgers repo I got the same results. It was working fine in 13.10.

Thanks.

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I have been instances like that.

  • Open System Setting and open Display (It symbol is computer screen).
  • On pop-up windows, It has two squares (Built-in Display and Unknown Display)
  • Select Unknown Display and turn off it.
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