| Summary: | Xorg server does not properly autodetect dual nVidia graphics cards | ||||||
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| Product: | xorg | Reporter: | Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh> | ||||
| Component: | Server/General | Assignee: | Nouveau Project <nouveau> | ||||
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> | ||||
| Severity: | normal | ||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 7.4 (2008.09) | ||||||
| Hardware: | x86-64 (AMD64) | ||||||
| OS: | Linux (All) | ||||||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||||||
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Created attachment 24273 [details] X.org log demonstrating the error When starting the X server, it detects that there are "More than one possible primary device found" (!!) More than one possible primary device found (--) PCI: (0@3:0:0) nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] rev 161, Mem @ 0xf4000000/16777216, 0xc0000000/268435456, 0xf2000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x0000ac00/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/524288 (--) PCI: (0@5:0:0) nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] rev 161, Mem @ 0xf8000000/16777216, 0xd0000000/268435456, 0xf6000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x00008c00/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/524288 The X server will then attempt to invoke the VESA driver instead of the Nouveau driver (this is on the Fedora 11 Nouveau Test Day LiveCD) Ultimately it will fail with: Fatal server error: AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 However, if I manually add the following to an xorg.conf file, it loads correctly. Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" BusID "PCI:3:0:0" Driver "nouveau" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard1" BusID "PCI:5:0:0" Driver "nouveau" EndSection The correct behavior of the X server should be to automatically generate these entries for each card.