jplove71
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2 edits | Ubuntu 7.04 - Enabling SLI
I did a search of ATU for "enable SLI" and got this result. Is it correct for me to say that I need to add the line in bold to my xorg.conf file to get SLI enabled?
Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GT]"
Driver "nvidia"
Busid "PCI:7:0:0"
Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "sli" "Auto"
EndSection
EDIT: Did a Q&D Google search and came across this link from nVidia regarding SLI (near bottom of page) in the xorg.conf file. Now to figure out which option is best for me to use.
EDIT #2: Well, adding that last line to my xorg.conf seems to have made things worse. My screen resolution is now locked to 800x600 @ 60Hz even after removing that line and restarting my system. D'oh! |
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jplove71
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| Well, needless to say, I somehow b0rk3d my xorg.conf file and have no GUI at all. 
Still doing searches on how to restore the file with not much luck. Good thing I didn't nuke my WinXP Pro install yet. |
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LLigetfa
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said by jplove71  :Well, needless to say, I somehow b0rk3d my xorg.conf file and have no GUI at all. Still doing searches on how to restore the file with not much luck. Good thing I didn't nuke my WinXP Pro install yet. my guess is you didn't make a backup of your xorg.conf huh..?? |
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jplove71
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Colorado Springs, CO | Yea... Stupid me. Still new to Linux in general and didn't think of backing it up. |
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LLigetfa
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Fort Frances, ON | What did you use to edit. Some editors may automagically create a backup. ISTR GEdit saves a backup ending in a tilde ~.
Anyway, if you run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg it should build you a new file. |
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jplove71
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| said by LLigetfa :What did you use to edit. Some editors may automagically create a backup. ISTR GEdit saves a backup ending in a tilde ~. Anyway, if you run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg it should build you a new file. I did use GEdit, actually. So a backup is a possiblity.
Also, I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg from and got an error message stating that xserver didn't exist. Or something similar to that. I didn't write it down when I ran the command.
Gonna do that now. |
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LLigetfa
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| said by jplove71 :Also, I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg from and got an error message stating that xserver didn't exist. Try using Ctl-Alt-F1 to bring up a new console and logon as root to run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. |
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drlouis
join:2003-07-21 | reply to jplove71
if you know what change you made that broke your xorg, you could just ctrl-alt-F2 and "sudo GEdit" to undo the change.
I also learned the hard way (repeatedly) to back up my config files before fiddling with them.
Good luck. |
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jplove71
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Colorado Springs, CO | I know what broke it (Edit #2 from OP) and subsequently removed the line that did it.
For whatever reason, my install of Ubuntu does not like the SLI configuration for my video cards. |
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clubs: | Hopefully you have learned an important lesson. Before you edit anything critical (such as xorg.conf) back it up. |
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