Re: SuSE 9.1 Video card conflict
From: Joost van der Waa (Joost.vander.waa_at_wipethis.hccnet.nl)
Date: 10/20/04
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:29:46 +0200
Anthony McNeill wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Ok, I have what I think is a strange one. Let me start from the beginni ng.
> I was running suse 9.0 with 2 video cards. An nvidia geforce4 mx 420 (64
> meg) and a sis 305 (32 meg) had the nvidia driver installed and everything
> worked great.
>
> Well, suse 9.1 came out and of course I upgraded. So far so good. Then I
> had to re-install the nvidia driver, again no problem I let yast do the
> work for me.
>
> Well, when I restarted, my pc got hung up on the nvidia logo splash,
> keyboard dead, mouse dead, just an logo screen. Ok, i reboot into init 3,
> login as root, edit my XF86Config file, change the driver = nvidia back to
> default nv, startx and no problems.
>
> So, i go to the nvidia site download their driver directly, follow the suse
> readme for setting up my own video with nvidia, install nvidia seems happy.
> So, I startx, "failed to initialize screen0" (or something to that affect).
>
> Ok, so i try a reboot. After going through the boot process, sax2 wants to
> start up and configure the video, i have no problem with that, BUT it fails
> out to the shell. So i try to start sax2 manually, and it kicks back out
> again showing an error that it cannot read the video boards. I tried many
> different command switches with sax2, and at one point a bit of info came
> up and said something about a resource conflict.
>
> Well, I pulled the sis card out and installed an old S3 stb nitro 3d video
> and sax2 configured the new card with the nvidia card no problems. So of
> course i tried the sis card again, again the same previous problems.
>
> Anyway, this is my problem, the s3 video card does for me, but it is too
> slow (only 4 meg) i would really like to be able to use the sis with the
> nvidia. I don't understand how it worked through suse 9.0 but not 9.1.
>
> The biggest reason for my upgrade to 9.1 was for the new kernel (with dual
> video 3d support)! I know that there is not an resource conflict between
> the 2 video cards, i have checked each cards resources individually, and
> there is no conflict (by the way, the nvidia is an AGP the sis is an PCI).
>
> Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.... Thanks, Anthony
I ha d a similar problem with a windows pc. The trick to fool the system
was to change the BIOS setting for the initial display. Normally you'll
prefer the AGP-slot to be the primary display, but just change that to
PCI. It did solve my problem!
Joost
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