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apt-get -y install nvidia-$(pyvidia) | apt-get -y install nvidia-$(pyvidia) | ||
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+ | ===== what if nouveau is disabled, nvidia is installed but xorg logs "no device found"? | ||
+ | if you have a system that contains both nvidia and non-nvidia graphics adapters (for example an onboard intel GPU), you might need to tell xorg which PCI device to use in combination with the nvidia driver. to do that, run | ||
+ | nvidia-smi | ||
+ | on the target system. it will display a Bus-Id for your card that looks similar to this: | ||
+ | 0000: | ||
+ | you will need this id for your xorg.conf file. However, the values displayed through nvidia-smi are **hex** values, for xorg.conf you need **decimal** numbers. if you don't know how to convert from hex to dec you can just google for "0x31 = ? decimal" | ||
+ | now edit your ''/ | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | Section " | ||
+ | Identifier | ||
+ | Driver | ||
+ | BusID " | ||
+ | EndSection | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | there might be more stuff in there, that's fine, just add the BusID line and keep the rest as is. what's important is, that you add the BusID in the Device section where the Driver is set to " | ||
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+ | now restart your xorg and it should find your card at the given PCI id | ||
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