On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 18:10 -0500, BandiPat wrote: > On Saturday 14 January 2006 17:17, M.Blackmore wrote: > > Total lock up with two different nvidia cards (fx5500, followed by > > 5200), won't install graphics on installation of Suse 10 (Linux > > Magazine UK version DVD - good on Linux Mag!!). > > I've had mixed success so far.
The systems also got a matrox millenium pci card for a second display, which I have had in and out of the box, and played with pic slot irq assignations etc. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Have you tried removing the Matrox card to see if things begin to work > normally? Nope, doing that didn't work initially using sax2/yast tools - lockup. I did, however, set up a basic nvidia generic driver using xf86config, and that seemed to enable something enough to run sax2, and I was then able to set up the nvidia card and monitor using the pointyklikky tools that lusers like me like... however, no second card with this. > You might also check your /var/log/messages file or the > Xorg.0.log for errors/help in what's happening. Had a look at those but didn't mean anything to me - a reflection of my ignorance. But didn't seem to be anything saying "failed" or whatever. System just hangs on running sax2. > Are you saying the > setup doesn't work with either the SuSE supplied nv driver or nVidia's > driver? > Yes, problem was with both. OK, now if I was able to, with both the matrox card in and out of the system, do something with xf86config that enabled sax2 to run, how can I set up the second PCI slot card as well using the same method - it might work?? Sax2 isn't recognising the existence of the second card now that I've taken it out. I did have a system running with both cards recognised but the monitor settings were all wrong and I couldn't run the yast control panel to change them without locking the system. At least I can get a single monitor system running, which is an improvement. I like GUIs - as thick as two short planks when it comes to command lines... Yours in bafflement --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
