On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 10:46 AM, Randall Watt wrote:
> > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf >> Of Josh Hogan >> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 10:54 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: [Xpert]Xinerama Problem with XFree86 4.1.0 >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 09:23 AM, Randall Watt wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >>>> Behalf >>>> Of Josh Hogan >>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 7:25 PM >>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> Subject: [Xpert]Xinerama Problem with XFree86 4.1.0 >>>> >>>> >>>> Hello. I've recently been trying to get the Xinerama extensions with >>>> XFree86 4.1.0 (stock from Redhat 7.2 install, no updates) working. >>>> My >>>> computer is a P2 233, with two video cards: >>>> >>>> Onboard Matrox 1064SG, on the PCI bus >>>> Matrox 2064W PCI card in PCI slot >>>> >>>> If I use just the 1064SG onboard card, it works flawlessly. If I >>>> place >>>> the 2064W card in, it works flawlessly as well. So, I tried to setup >>>> the Xinerama extensions. It appears that I have the configuration >>>> file >>>> setup properly, but here is a copy of it (The 1064 card is labeled as >>>> Onboard, the 2064 is labeled as PCI) >>> >>> The 2064W (original Millennium) has a vga enable/disable switch right >>> on the >>> card. You may need to change the setting. >>> >> I did find the switch on the 2064W. It was set to "VGA Enable". I >> changed it over to "VGA Disable". When I did that, the machine booted >> up with the onboard card flawlessly -- the first time it's done it with >> the Millenium in a PCI slot :) However . . . >> >> I changed back over to my Xinerama-enabled config file and tried to >> start it up -- the machine then hard-locked (ssh died, no ping, etc.). >> So I rebooted the machine and tried to start XF86 with just the >> Millenium (specifying it via BusID) -- it hard-locked the machine >> again. >> >> I currently have the onboard 1064SG (btw, the chip itself on the MoBo >> reads it as a 1164SG) set in the BIOS to NOT auto-disable. Should the >> Millenium be set to disable or enable? > > Working with onboard graphics adapters can often be a pain. If you want > to > use Xinerama then I believe the best option would be to enable the > onboard > 1064 (Mystique) and disable vga on the Millennium, but as it stands > when you > try to initialize the Millennium it seems to conflict with your onboard > Mystique. If you haven't already you may want to try all the > combinations > you can between the vga switch, the onboard auto-disable settings, and > the > xinerama enabled config file. Make sure that the Millennium works on > its own > (use a different system if you have to) > > As a last resort you might have to try some fun things such as check for > resource conflicts (shared IRQ's, overlapping memory ranges), update > motherboard and graphics card bioses, etc. > You could start by removing other pci/isa devices and trying the > Millennium > in each of the pci slots... > I'm working with the cards now, trying them in different enable/disable modes. I'm afraid I'm going to have to play around with shared IRQ's and overlapping memory ranges. I believe (looking at /proc/pci) I've got a memory overlap, but I'm not sure. Is there anyway to hard-set these in a config file somewhere? I only have two PCI slots in the machine, one for the Enet card, one for the vid card. I suppose I might just see if I can find another video card somewhere else :) Thanks again for your help Randall :) Josh _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
