Hi all,
I have an IBM 300PL (233mmx, with 160MB ram.) It has an inbuilt Matrox Mystique with 2MB and I have added a 32mb TNT2vanta to it. the Matrox card does not have a jumper to disable it that I can see. When I run drakxconf, it finds both cards and I ask it to install just the TNT2. It does this, and setting the resolution and monitor type go just fine. however the riva is showing up in the X11 conf file as having 2MB of ram, which is what the bios says the matrox has. so I corrected that, and changed it to 32768 with is 1024 times 32. saved that, backed out of the conf file and started X with "startx icewm" I get no errors showing up, the system does alot of stuff, but the screen shows nothing at all, its blank.. (this happens with the ram set at 2mb or 32... makes no difference.) no errors at all, nothing in the logs.. its all go, just a blank screen. its got me beat... If I go back to the first console, the one I started X from, the last line on the screen is this: (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: Mouse) and it just sits there... does that mean its not a video problem??? I am at a loss as to what it is... sorta beats the purpose of having a TNT2 in the box hey!!! Any ideas on how to disable the inbuilt video, (I downloaded the user and tech manuals from the IBM site, but neither mention disabling the card.) So I am in something of a quandry... I don't want to go back to the Matrox, but its lookin like I will have to. rgds Frank
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