Why Monitor shows "unknown" in gnome display ?

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Issue

  • Not able to figure out how to get monitor recognized.
  • User has 2 monitors and would like to declare one as primary and the other secondary however both monitors display exact same info currently.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • GNOME

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