weird graphics issue-need help please

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weird graphics issue-need help please

Postby sairus002 » Tue May 26, 2009 5:03

Im using a laptop with 2 nvidia go 7900GS cards. Everything functions normally but only if I can get the xscreen to display. Every time I boot sabayon the screen will be completely black. I have to switch to a terminal and type, /etc/init.d/xdm restart (I dont know what that does, but i saw on google that it worked for someone who couldnt get the desktop to display.) once I type that in, all the terminals will go black and flicker, and im forced to do a hard shutdown. once i power it up it boots fine and everything works. I have to repeat that process every time i want to use sabayon. I tried typing startx in the terminal and it said that its already active for monitor 0 or something. when I got to the desktop I looked in the nvidia settings and it said GPU 0 was connected to an unknown CRT monitor. I think its trying to display the xscreen on a non-existant monitor.... GPU 1 is the one thats connected to a display. Is there any way I can fix this? can I somehow enable SLI for the 1 (real) display?
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Re: weird graphics issue-need help please

Postby DHalens » Tue May 26, 2009 13:58

I wonder if something is not properly configured in xorg.conf :roll:
If noone has a solution, you may want to take a look into http://http.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/180.51/README/appendix-b.html and play a bit with options.

If you find a solution by changing options, please report back, I'm sure devs will find it useful and will try to make next sabayon release work better.
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Re: weird graphics issue-need help please

Postby sairus002 » Tue May 26, 2009 17:50

ive been messing with those options for hours with no luck. its the same issue no matter what I do. I tried enabling SLI with several configurations but all that does is disable the real monitor and it displays on the false one.
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