nvidia twinview in ubuntu with large resolutions not working

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Published on 2010-05-09T15:19:21Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 15:30 UTC
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i bought an external monitor and can't get it to work properly with my laptop screen.

my laptop screen has a resolution of 1920x1200 and the new monitor has 1920x1080

when i open nvidia-settings and select the maximum resolution for each of the screen, one screen will always stay blank. if i select a smaller resolution for one of the two it will work.

1920x1200 + 1440x900 = works
1680x1050 + 1920x1080 = works
1920x1200 + 1920x1080 = doesn't work (but that's what i want to have!)

my graphics card is an 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro FX 360M (rev a1) (output from lspci), driver is proprietary nvidia driver, operating system is ubuntu.

any help greatly apreciated

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