[NBLUG/talk] Setting up X on a secondary video card

[Lincoln Peters]

On Tuesday 27 December 2005 09:58 pm, thiessen at sonic.net wrote:
> (1)  Does your xorg.conf file really read:
>
>          BusID           "PCI:1:13:0"
>
> When "X -scanpci" tells you that the card is at 0:13:0  ?

It seems that I typed in the wrong BusID.  I corrected the BusID and it 
worked.

Almost feels like I temporarily forgot how to read...

>
> (2)  I don't know how well the vga driver plays with the TNT2 video card.
>      Try the "nv" driver instead.

I can tell you now that it plays well, although since it *is* the vga driver, 
the results are rather unimpressive.  I will experiment with the nv driver, 
though.


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Lincoln Peters
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