[NBLUG/talk] Dual Monitor configuration problem

[Rob Orsini]

Dave-Dogg,

No, but when I set that cart (AGP) as primay in the bios it works just
fine.  In fact I'm using the NVidia card for my ONE monitor now :(

Anyone want to buy my other monitor and video card?

Rob

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 09:31, Dave Rohling wrote:
> Have you installed the Nvidia driver? Just a thought. :-)
> 
> - Dave 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-admin at nblug.org [mailto:talk-admin at nblug.org] On Behalf Of Rob
> Orsini
> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 10:13 PM
> To: talk at nblug.org
> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Dual Monitor configuration problem
> 
> 
> 
> On Sunday, September 28, 2003, at 12:57 PM, Justin Thiessen wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 07:13:49PM -0700, Rob Orsini wrote:
> >> I am having problems getting both monitors working with a new RH9 box 
> >> of mine.  I have two video cards: Nvidia (AGP) and a ATI (PCI).  I 
> >> have confirmed that each card/monitor works on it's own with my 
> >> system by switching the bios video setting between PCI and AGP.  I 
> >> think my XF86config file is in pretty good shape in terms of the 
> >> required sections. My current theory is that my system is looking in 
> >> the wrong place for the second video card, but I really don't know 
> >> what's going on.
> >>
> >> Here are two lines that stood out to me from the XFree86.log file:
> >> (II) ATI:  Candidate "Device" section "Videocard1".
> >> (WW) ATI:  PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 2:0:0 could not be detected!
> >
> > There are a couple of possible issues:
> >
> > (1) Some PCI graphics cards won't function unless they are set to 
> > primary in the BIOS.  You may have to let the ATI card be the primary 
> > for the boot-up display.  Otherwise it may not be properly initialized 
> > by the bios
> >
> > I have my system set up that way with a Matrox G200MMS and a G400 MAX.
> >
> > It's possible to tell linux which display to use for it's primary
> > output,
> > so, for example, even though the 1st head of the G200MMS card is the 
> > initial
> > boot-up display, my system switches over and uses the 1st head of the 
> > G400
> > partway through the boot sequence.
> >
> >> Do I need to tell X exactly where to look for each video card?
> >
> > (2) You probably do need to tell X exactly where to look for each
> > video card.
> >     This is pretty easy to do given the output from lspci.
> 
> 
> Justin,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  As for making the ATI/PCI primary in the bios, I 
> have tried both options already.  I guess I'm confused about the error 
> message that says it can't find the ATI card at 2:0:0 when output of 
> 'lspci' says that it is, in fact, there.   I'm also wondering where X 
> is geting the "ATI/PCI Mach 64" string in it's error message when 
> 'lspci' lists a different description for that card.  I realize that I 
> named it "ATI Mach 64" in my conf file but that's still not the same 
> string as in the error.
> 
> Also, I just read about the 'XFree86 -scanpci' command in "Running 
> LInux" which I hope will display exactly what X sees in the PCI bus 
> which I guess might differ from the output of 'lspci'.  There's also 
> 'XFree86 -probeonly which might help give me more info.
> 
> Unfortunately, the box is at work and I'll have to wait tomorrow a.m. 
> to try all this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob
> 
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