linux with 3 nvidia pci-e cards

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dup - 26 Apr 2007 14:42 GMT

I have a asus p5n32-e sli mb with 3 pci-e slots.
When I put 3 nvidia(7600) dual heads in it,nvidia-settings only detects two
gpu's.In the log I get an error that gpu 2 (got gpu 0 and gpu 1) could not
be initialized.
Tried different linux distro's,different bios settings but no go.
Lspci gives me the 3 video cards(on 1.0.0 and 5.0.0 and 1.0.0(also as
0a.0.0).
Tried the latest nvidia driver and ubuntu drivers.No go.

thanks

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Ed Medlin - 26 Apr 2007 16:04 GMT

>I have a asus p5n32-e sli mb with 3 pci-e slots.
> When I put 3 nvidia(7600) dual heads in it,nvidia-settings only
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> thanks

2 of those slots are PCIe X16 (most all video cards) and the other is
probably an X8 PCIe slot for PCIe sound cards and other peripherals.

Ed

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dup - 26 Apr 2007 16:47 GMT

>>I have a asus p5n32-e sli mb with 3 pci-e slots.
>> When I put 3 nvidia(7600) dual heads in it,nvidia-settings only
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> Ed

Thanks,
But they are indeed slots for video-cards.I did the tric once with an early
ubuntu feisty,but now it's not possible anymore.
Nvidia-settings showing me only a 16x gpu0 and a 8x gpu1

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dup - 26 Apr 2007 20:37 GMT

> I have a asus p5n32-e sli mb with 3 pci-e slots.
> When I put 3 nvidia(7600) dual heads in it,nvidia-settings only detects
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>
> thanks

solved:
it was a nvram error

add at boot menu:
vmalloc=256MB pci=nommconf

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