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After wasting a lot of time trying to get Radeon HD2600 to work i gave up and got my hands on two Geforce 7800GT. So far trying to get things going with one GPU at a time, out of box LiveCD 14.04 wouldn't even boot, screen would freeze. After lot of research and trying few different things setting nomodeset in grub did the trick. Finally got a desktop but both monitors are in clone mode and it doesn't look like the second monitor is even recognized. I was hoping not to go with binary nvidia but looks like i might have to go that route. If i went with windows everything would be up and running a week ago, and here i'm fighting just to boot things up out of box on 5yr old GPUs

$ lspci | grep VGA

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G70 [GeForce 7800 GT] (rev a1)

$ sudo lshw -c video

  *-display UNCLAIMED     

       description: VGA compatible controller

       product: G70 [GeForce 7800 GT]

       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation

       physical id: 0

       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0

       version: a1

       width: 64 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list

       configuration: latency=0

       resources: memory:fd000000-fdffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:fc000000-fcffffff ioport:bc00(size=128) memory:fe7e0000-fe7fffff

$ xrandr

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default

Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024

default connected primary 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm

   1280x1024       0.0* 

   1024x768        0.0  

   800x600         0.0  

   640x480         0.0  

$ grep EE /var/log/Xorg.1.log 

    (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.

[   484.141] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory

[   484.141] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory

[   484.141] (EE) 

[   484.141] (EE) Backtrace:

[   484.141] (EE) 0: X (xorg_backtrace+0x48) [0x7f8d03923c78]

[   484.141] (EE) 1: X (0x7f8d0377b000+0x1ac969) [0x7f8d03927969]

[   484.141] (EE) 2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f8d02878000+0x10340) [0x7f8d02888340]

[   484.141] (EE) 

[   484.141] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x0

[   484.141] (EE) 

[   484.141] (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

[   484.141] (EE) 

[   484.141] (EE) 

[   484.141] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.1.log" for additional information.

[   484.141] (EE) 

/dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory

This error message is because you disabled Kernel Mode Setting with nomodeset. Nouveau requires KMS to work correctly. From Nouveau TroubleShooting

Xorg fails to start with "(EE) [drm] failed to open device"

Your DDX does not work with your current kernel and/or libdrm. There
are at least three possible reasons for this: the nouveau DRM kernel
module is not loaded, a version mismatch between the Nouveau DRM and
libdrm, or KMS being disabled.

First check, that lsmod command lists nouveau. If not, do modprobe
nouveau to load the nouveau DRM kernel module, and check the kernel
log for possible errors.

If the kernel module nouveau is loaded according to lsmod command, but
there are no kernel messages about nouveau at all, then most likely
Nouveau KMS is disabled. This prevents the driver to work at all.
Possible places to disable KMS are:

• kernel command line with: nomodeset, drm.modeset=0, nouveau.modeset=0 or similar


• modprobe.conf or modprobe.d/ adding the module options drm modeset=0 or nouveau modeset=0


• initramfs carrying the above module options

Check and remove all those that you may find, and retry.