I have a dell poweredge 1400sc serer running SuSE Linux 8.0 (XFree 4.2.0), which has an onboard ATI rage XL videocard. I want to plug an extra PCI video card to be able to have a dual screen setup. I have an old S3 Virge which works just fine but unfortunately when I plug it into the computer the on-board card is "disabled". Now I'm not sure what this "disabled" means but the card still appears when running lspci, only that it says that some things are disabled:
00:0e.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 00ce
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32
Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)[disabled] [size=16M]
I/O ports at dc00 [disabled] [size=256]
Memory at fe101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=4K]
However I can reenable all these things with "setpci -s 0:e command=87" but after trying to start the X server, they are disabled again.
I don't understad very well how these things work, but my guess is that the X server tries to access the card through the BIOS and the BIOS functions disable the card and return error. What I would like to do is to bypass the BIOS and somehow access the card directly. I guess it should work, shouldn't it?
A log can be seen here:
http://www.abcpages.com/~mache/XFree86.1.0.log
The first error that is reported is: (EE) ATI(1): Cannot read V_BIOS (WW) ATI(1): Unable to initialise int10 interface.
What does this mean and how can I overcome it?
Thanks in advance for any help or suggestion, mache
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