X doesn't start with two Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT cards - Fedora 11
Hi all, I recently bought two Nvidia 9500 GT cards in my Fedora 11 (64bit) system with the hopes of setting up SLI, going to a tri-monitor set up in the future, and running CUDA apps on them.
I put one in and everything booted fine. I installed the Nvidia driver and let it configure my Xorg.conf file. However, when I put the second card in (with an SLI bridge) X does not start. The screen flickers for a few seconds then hangs. (It does the same thing without the SLI bridge in). I've never done anything with two video cards before and I'm sure this takes a little extra configuration, I just don't know what that is. Here is my current Xorg.conf file... Code:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig Anyway, I'd really like to not see 150$ go down the drain. Any help or a point in the right direction is greatly appreciated. Thank you. |
start in maintenance mode and use the vesa driver to login to your GUI. desktop.
or if you fail to get GUI then at that point ubuntu ask you fix the display use the vesa driver. then do this while on line. Quote:
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I don't have a problem installing the Nvidia driver. I am currently running Compiz and all the other pretty desktop effects. My problem is that when I put a second video card in my system, X fails to start.
Also, I'm using Fedora 11; your instructions appear to be for Ubuntu. |
I got it all sorted out. Turns out I needed to specify the BusID for each video card in my xorg.conf because X couldn't decide which to use as the primary card. :)
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Hi, I am setting up ubuntu 9.04 with 2 9500GT cards and 3 displays. When i have the 2 cards in the system i don't get the x-windowceven on one monitor. I added the bus id in the device section. Can u please provide me your xorg.conf file. e-mail id is dvelagap2gmail.com. Thanks Durga |
as root run nvidia-settings and set up a twin head system.
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If you have not done so already, take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log, look for any errors and post it here. My xorg.conf (the card sections) is as follows: Code:
Section "Device" |
first off I would use the actual nvidia driver and installer from nvidia. Like the instructions say use the nvidia-settings tool to set up boot both screens separate.
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I would like to ask the original postr on how the story of two 9500GT SLI cards ended and whether the tandem was indeed faster. And how stable was it after-all?
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