nvivia 7800 gtx & gt

[Uffe]

I'm surprised you were allowed to touch it!!!

When have you placed that spy cam in my office ?

You must also know all about it, his PC fits the description of you system exactly on the dot.

[Uffe]

Thank you all for the help. I didn't have a clue about it was sli I was looking for and have now found a how-to in danish I will try tomorrow.

Edit A bit of it is in danish, so I've translated that part so it all is in englih:

Someone who has same problem wrote:
The problem is that Ubuntu not can decide witch graphic card (placed in SLI) who is the premier, and reacted by saying that there is no graphic card.

For me it was enough to write the Bus ID on the graphic card in xorg.conf as explained in this tread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=965085&hi...

My Device section loks now like this:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Busid "PCI:3:0:0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "sli" "auto"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

Find bus-id with the command:

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lspci | grep VGA

and insert the first found instead.
( it is prolonging the boot-time, but works )

[Uffe]

I'm lost
Tried with 2.0 and now 2.1 - same trubble - if I try editing /etc/ X11/xorg.conf with VIM I can't save it, and very strange things happens.
I used the commands from here http://www.ss64.com/bash/vi.html but when I'm finish editing and pres <ESC> I can't write <WQ> - in fact I can't do anything besides from reboot. Is it me doing something wrong ?

[pch.shot]

You are going to have to do this from a terminal(oh.oh using root privileges) without gdm running. I guess that tidbit of information was not shared in the thread.
Here is a quick how to:
Hit Ctrl Alt F1(that will get you a terminal)
type sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
add your BusID #
hit Ctrl ^ 0 to save it(I think it is called write out in nano)
Nano is quirky at best so you may have to try it a few times until you see /etc/X11/xorg.conf on the save line.
Then hit Ctrl Alt F7 that will start gdm again reboot and you should be good to go.
And no, I don't remember this off the top of my head. At my age, I have to write everything down, and I mean everything!!

[Uffe]

You are going to have to do this from a terminal(oh.oh using root privileges) without gdm running. I guess that tidbit of information was not shared in the thread.
Here is a quick how to:
Hit Ctrl Alt F1(that will get you a terminal)
type sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
add your BusID #
hit Ctrl ^ 0 to save it(I think it is called write out in nano)
Nano is quirky at best so you may have to try it a few times until you see /etc/X11/xorg.conf on the save line.
Then hit Ctrl Alt F7 that will start gdm again reboot and you should be good to go.
And no, I don't remember this off the top of my head. At my age, I have to write everything down, and I mean everything!!

Thanks a lot
gdm isn't running - it post me a message that it can't start up so it must be -what?- a root promt I'm working in?? Never the less I'll give it another try - wont quit til its working

By the way - you not the only one with notes - you should see my desk

[pch.shot]

You may have to start again with a clean install and then do what I suggested. Start with a clean slate!!! With that computer it should only take 15 to 20 minutes. When the installer gets to the part about scanning the mirrors just unplug the ethernet cable(that will speed things up a bit) then plug it back in when you get past that part. I can do an install in <20 minutes on my computer!!!

[Uffe]

You may have to start again with a clean install and then do what I suggested. Start with a clean slate!!! With that computer it should only take 15 to 20 minutes. When the installer gets to the part about scanning the mirrors just unplug the ethernet cable(that will speed things up a bit) then plug it back in when you get past that part. I can do an install in <20 minutes on my computer!!!

I'm forced to reinstall - I've messed that installation totally up with all that "trying to fix things I don't know enough about" - but hopefully I'm learning something at the same time

BTW Thanks for your patience

I takes longer to unconnect and reconnect than to download.

[pch.shot]

My record for re-installs is 4 in one day. It may very well have been on the sli setup. I can't remember now because I didn't write it down!!!

[Uffe]

You are going to have to do this from a terminal(oh.oh using root privileges) without gdm running. I guess that tidbit of information was not shared in the thread.
Here is a quick how to:
Hit Ctrl Alt F1(that will get you a terminal)
type sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
add your BusID #
hit Ctrl ^ 0 to save it(I think it is called write out in nano)
Nano is quirky at best so you may have to try it a few times until you see /etc/X11/xorg.conf on the save line.
Then hit Ctrl Alt F7 that will start gdm again reboot and you should be good to go.
And no, I don't remember this off the top of my head. At my age, I have to write everything down, and I mean everything!!

Just so I'm sure that I'm doing it the right way this time: Do I do this from the desktop? and if thats correct - how do I stop gdm?

If it don't work this time, I'm also on 4

[Uffe]

Thanks a lot
I'll try my luck