On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Zhang Weiwu <zhangwe...@realss.com> wrote: > On 10/25/2010 11:32 PM, Alex Deucher wrote: >> The drm is not able to access the rom on your secondary card so it's >> not able to initialize it. From your dmesg: >> [ 16.705425] radeon 0000:02:00.0: Invalid ROM contents >> [ 16.705469] radeon 0000:02:00.0: Invalid ROM contents >> [ 16.705480] [drm:radeon_get_bios] *ERROR* Unable to locate a BIOS ROM >> > I am sorry being newbie in a geeky list. The big difference of newbie > and geek is, newbie usually carry two questions (as I wrote:) >> What do you think is my problem and how to fix it so X always starts on >> boot? > So the first question is what is the problem, second being how to fix it. > > While geek only have one question "what is the problem" and they can fix > it themselves if they know what problem is it. > > So thanks for helping answer the first question... :) > > So, much to go against the wisdom of asking question the right way, may > I also ask the second question "what should I do now?" > > Since I don't need the second video card in Linux, but only need it in > dual-booted Windows, can I simply add a parameter on kernel start-up to > ignore probing the second video card? I'd be glad be told the parameter > directly or where to look for the answer.
You can specify the busid of the card you want X to start on in the device section of your xorg.conf: e.g., BusID "PCI:2:0:0" Alex _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati