I have the powerpack CD's, so I tried the option of using the nvidia drivers, and tried just the mesa drivers.. It gives you the option to use just Xfree 4.x, or Xfree 4.x and the Nvidia drivers. (it also lists Xfree 3.x and 3.x with experimental 3d drivers.. but I didn't try them...)
in the xconfig file, (its X 4.something, whatever is the 8.1 ver 4 Xfree) the card is identified as a TNT2, and is using the nv driver. wouldnt' a conflict cause X to crash? It just sits there, but the connection to X is still there, If I ctrl-alt-backspace, I drop back to the console.. so X is running, its just not doing anything. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: Onur Kucuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 4 January 2002 2:46 AM To: Franki Subject: Re: [expert] 2 Video cards, a inbuilt Matrox Mystique and a 32Mb Nvidia TNT2vanta F> Hi all, F> I have an IBM 300PL (233mmx, with 160MB ram.) F> It has an inbuilt Matrox Mystique with 2MB and I have added a 32mb TNT2vanta F> to it. F> the Matrox card does not have a jumper to disable it that I can see. F> When I run drakxconf, it finds both cards and I ask it to install just the F> TNT2. F> It does this, and setting the resolution and monitor type go just fine. F> however the riva is showing up in the X11 conf file as having 2MB of ram, F> which is what the bios says the matrox has. F> so I corrected that, and changed it to 32768 with is 1024 times 32. F> saved that, backed out of the conf file and started X with "startx icewm" F> I get no errors showing up, the system does alot of stuff, but the screen F> shows nothing at all, its blank.. F> (this happens with the ram set at 2mb or 32... makes no difference.) F> no errors at all, nothing in the logs.. its all go, just a blank screen. its F> got me beat... F> If I go back to the first console, the one I started X from, the last line F> on the screen is this: F> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: Mouse) F> and it just sits there... does that mean its not a video problem??? I am at F> a loss as to what it is... F> sorta beats the purpose of having a TNT2 in the box hey!!! F> Any ideas on how to disable the inbuilt video, (I downloaded the user and F> tech manuals from the IBM site, but neither mention disabling the card.) F> So I am in something of a quandry... I don't want to go back to the Matrox, F> but its lookin like I will have to. F> rgds F> Frank There is a conflict certainly. Did you check what is selected as driver ? A few lines above the one that you set up your video cards ram, is it set to "nv" ? You can force X to use the certain PCI bus, that is of your tnt2. lspci ( lispci -v )will give you info about it and all you have to do is to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. I would advice you use the nvidia drivers from nvidia's website. Most probably it will solve all this without forcing the pci bus. Onur Kucuk _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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