On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 02:35:19AM -0800, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: > On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Jaguar Finch wrote: > > > I'm trying to get a PCIe and a PCI video card to work together for a > > multi-monitor setup but > > I'm getting "(EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens > > found". > > > > This is under Ubunutu 9.04 and both are nvidia cards. According to the log, > > both cards are > > [snip] > > > X.Org X Server 1.6.0 > > Release Date: 2009-2-25 > > Here's your problem. Dual screen card support was broken for quite a > while. Basically, 1.6.x doesn't support them, except by accident. I'm a
Actually, for drivers that don't require I/O access or legacy VGA, it does work if you specify BusIDs. Jaguar's problem was that he was using the lspci style of BusID rather than the X style (i.e. "bus:dev.func" rather than "bus:dev:func"). We really ought to agree on a common BusID formatting style and then be consistent about it. > Fedora user, and it completely failed for me for Fedora versions maybe 9-11. > Xorg 1.7 (used in Fedora 12) is supposed to support multiple graphics chips. > So here's what I see your options to be: > 1. Upgrade to xorg 1.7 and see if it helps you (you may have to upgrade > your whole OS to get the xorg upgrade) > 2. Downgrade to one of the versions that used to work (may not support > modern screen cards). > 3. Get a screen card that supports dual monitors on one chip. Be warned > that these must be on one chip on the card; I have a screen card that > supports 4 monitors, but on Fedora 11 I can only use 2 because the > problem is that there are two chips on the card, and each supports two > monitors, but xorg 1.6 only supports one chip at a time (except under > special circumstances). > > HTH, > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > | Name: Tim Nelson | Because the Creator is, | > | E-mail: [email protected] | I am | > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK---- > Version 3.12 > GCS d+++ s+: a- C++$ U+++$ P+++$ L+++ E- W+ N+ w--- V- > PE(+) Y+>++ PGP->+++ R(+) !tv b++ DI++++ D G+ e++>++++ h! y- > -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Content-Description: ATT00001.txt > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
