TWO RTX A400 GPUS in one Lenovo Thinkstation P620 - NOT WORKING

I am using the Cachy os with kernel 6.12.6-2 stable on my Lenovo P620 ThinkStation workstation.
I have two GPUS - both the same NVIDIA RTX A4000 workstation edition synced with PNY Quadra Sync card. Both work flawlessly under Windows 10.

When I connect both of my monitors TO THE SAME GPU - both monitors work ok.

When I connect one monitor to the first GPU and a second monitor to the second gpu I ONLY get the cursor displayed on my secondary monitor - but no desktop, no wallpaper, no windows when I drag them.

Both monitors are properly discovered by the system - but I cannot use the second monitor (and as a result my second GPU).

It is a bit problematic since having 8 outputs was the primary reason for me to have two GPUS in the same machine.

Any help would be appreciated.
INFO FROM NVIDIA SETTINGS PANEL:
NVIDIA DRIVER VERSION 565.77
NVML VERSION: 12.565.77

GRAPHICS INFORMATION - BLANK SCREEN


this point came from nvidia drivers for double video cards
you can check with

nvidia-smi -q