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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  I am using Jaunty, with the 180.44-0ubuntu1 version of the nvidia-
  glx-180 package.
  
  I discovered that when activating the proprietary driver for nvidia on
  my SLI system, that after restart gdm would not start and I was greeted
  by the terminal.  After further investigation I discovered that xorg was
  spitting out an error similar to this:
  
  (EE)No devices detected
  
  fatal server error:
  no screens found
  
  After searching the internet for a few hours I discovered that the error
  could be remedied by explicitly defining the Busid of the primary video
  card in the Device section of xorg.conf.  This is how my now working
  xorg.conf looks:
  
  Section "Device"
      Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
      Driver          "nvidia"
      Busid	        "PCI:5:0:0"
      Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "1" 
      Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "1"
      Option         "Coolbits" "1"
      Option         "TripleBuffer" "1"
      Option         "DamageEvents" "1"
      Option         "BackingStore" "1"
      Option         "InitialPixmapPlacement" "2"
  EndSection
  
  The only important line is the "Busid" line, this is what solved the
  problem for me.  I feel as though this should be automatically set up,
  as it can be jarring for some users to think they are improving their
  graphics to suddenly be greeted with a text only command line after
  restart.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: nvidia-glx-180 180.44-0ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009
  SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180
  Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
+ 
+ [lspci]
+ 00:00.0 Memory controller [0580]: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller [10de:005e] (rev a3)
+     	Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device [147b:1c1b]
+ 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV42 [GeForce 6800 XT] [10de:00c3] (rev a2)
+     	Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device [1682:2177]
+ 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV42 [GeForce 6800 XT] [10de:00c3] (rev a2)
+     	Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device [1682:2177]

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nvidia proprietary driver causes xorg failure on SLI systems
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379546
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