Re: PCIExpress and PCI video card together

2006-04-28 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:37:03AM -0700, Sebastian Haase wrote: He said something about NvAgp vs apgart - and some other tricks... If you are using proprietary drivers, then that's a different story. A proprietary driver may very well know how to boot the other cards without using the BIOS;

Re: PCIExpress and PCI video card together

2006-04-28 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:40:30PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: Experience says no, you can't mix nVidia ATI (fglrx) - both the kernel modules assorted nonsense in the Xorg directories will conflict If you want to use proprietary modules, then you are right (well, not in theory, but very likely

Re: PCIExpress and PCI video card together

2006-04-20 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:39:40PM -0700, Sebastian Haase wrote: Is the PCI-X slot supported in the default kernel ? I use a precompiled 2.6.15 kernel. I checked the /boot/config-2.6.15... file but didn't recognise anything useful ... PCI-X should be supported (you can check it by removing

Re: PCIExpress and PCI video card together

2006-04-20 Thread Sebastian Haase
Gabor, The missing part was that the kernel option (or parameter) pci=nommconf needed to be added. (Maybe this is not needed in 2.6.16 anymore (but it probably is)...) Then it showed up in lspci. And XF86Config-4 can handle it nicely. I even found a web page where a guy describes how to run 3+

Re: PCIExpress and PCI video card together

2006-04-20 Thread Jo Shields
Sebastian Haase wrote: Gabor, The missing part was that the kernel option (or parameter) pci=nommconf needed to be added. (Maybe this is not needed in 2.6.16 anymore (but it probably is)...) Then it showed up in lspci. And XF86Config-4 can handle it nicely. I even found a web page where a guy

Re: PCIExpress and PCI video card together

2006-04-20 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
On 4/20/06, Sebastian Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gabor, The missing part was that the kernel option (or parameter) pci=nommconf needed to be added. (Maybe this is not needed in 2.6.16 anymore (but it probably is)...) Then it showed up in lspci. And XF86Config-4 can handle it nicely. I

PCIExpress and PCI video card together

2006-04-17 Thread Sebastian Haase
Hi, On my Tyan Thunder K8WE (s2895) I have two nVidia gfx cards 1) PCI-Express nVidia 6800GT - works fine with nvidia driver (thanks for the help from this list!) 2) PCI nVidia 5200FX that I put in an PCI-X slot Problem: the second card doesn't show up at all !! (It works on windowsXP-64)

Re: PCIExpress and PCI video card together

2006-04-17 Thread reeses1
Greetings: I had the same problem with a 3Ware RAID card not showing up at all. Also with lots of help from the folks on this list, I found out that without adding pci=nommconf as a boot parameter to the kernel, you won't find any of the PCI slots on the board. Worked like a charm for me.