OK, I've gotten everything working in my local environment.
I needed to get DEvice entries placed manually in my xorg.conf using
Busid lines, and then nvidia-settings was able to vbe used. I've
attached the working xorg.conf file to this bug.
** Attachment added: xorg.conf
I've got the same problem with Ubuntu 9.04 on a new install. Works with
one card, fails with two.
dual nVidia Quadro FX 570 cards in my case.
I think that xorg.conf should be able to manually modified to choose one
display as primary, but I haven't figured out how yet.
nvidia-settings should
Found this:
http://www.rikertothebridge.com/2009/04/xorg-server-fails-to-start-on-
ubuntu-with-more-than-one-nvidia-gfx-card-in-machine/
Adding a Busid line to the Device section of xorg.conf lets me start
the X server
lspci lists things like this:
lspci lists the graphics cards:
01:00.0 VGA
