X server doesn't detect my second graphic card. ubuntu crashes when I try adding it manually to xorg.conf

Question

I have 2 graphic cards (gtx 1070) attached to the mainboard. lspci detects both cards

$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1b81 (rev a1)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1b81 (rev a1)

But there's only one "Device" Section in the xorg.conf file, and there's no graphic output on the card that X Server doesn't detect. I then tried adding the second graphic card manually, by adding Screen 1 “FakeScreen1” to Section "ServerLayout" and

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     “FakeMonitor1”
    VendorName     “Dummy”
    ModelName      “Dummy”
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device1”
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option         "Coolbits" "31"
    BusID          "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     “FakeScreen1”
    Device         "Device1”
    Monitor        “FakeMonitor1”
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "Coolbits" "31"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

to the end of the xorg.conf file. Ubuntu fails to boot after that, with this error on blank screen:

I then overwrite the tweaked xorg.conf with the default-back-up-xorg.conf and ubuntu reverts back to previous state with 2nd gpu not detected by X.

Where did I get it wrong? What can I do to make X recognized the second gpu?

Answer 1

I was able to fix it. The problem was that I edited the xorg.conf file with Apple's Seirra TextEdit which converted all my " to “ and ” which aren't pure ascii characters. Therefore, X couldn't read the config file.