The NVIDIA X driver is not new enough to support the nvidia-settings Display Configuration page

Question

I've been trying without success to configure dual monitors on 12.04, I've installed the nvidia drivers but the gui tool doesn't seem to support my graphics card.

Any Idea on how to resolve this?

Oh, and the output from

$ lspci | grep VGA
$ 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G86 [Quadro NVS 290] (rev a1)

Solution

Problem was solved for me by switching from "(version current) [Recommended]" to "(post-release updates) (version current-updates)" .

Comments

[Martinffx]

The problem seem to be the graphics card, it only had one DVI port and I was using a splitter to connect an additional monitor. Which worked great in windows. Ubuntu doesn't seem to detect the second monitor though.

[hayd]

I have this issue with a graphics card with two VGA ports, the card worked fine with two (non-mirrored) monitors on a different machine (with 9.04).

[elvismdev]

For me i solved it too switching from "(version current) [Recommended]" to "(post-release updates) (version current-updates)" in Additional Drivers aplication.

[Martinffx]

I've done that several times with different versions of the drivers. I've even recompiled the kernel with the new drivers, but no luck.

[Bill Cheatham]

Can I ask where you made this switch? Thanks.

[Sofox]

Switch is made in "Additional Drivers". You can find this in "System Settings" or do a search in the dash.