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#1

Hi,

I've got my brand-new Acer Aspire X3200 which has a AMD Phenom Quad Core.

Nice and all, but I cant seem to get the nvidia-glx-177 to work.

I've tried it with the enable restricted drivers, and manually installing. It loads ok as a module, but X says no device found.

Do I need to enable/disable SLI? Or anything else?

Any tips would be great, thanks!

#2

I've solved it.

What was missing is the BusID in my xorg.conf.

Here's how you can:

lspci | grep VGA

My output was: 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8200 (rev a2) 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 06e0 (rev a1)

Then add to xorg.conf:

Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" BusID "03:00:0" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" EndSection

#3

Thx for the tip. I'm going to try this when i am home. Would be nice if this can be fixed by default.