I have managed to solve my problem so I'm posting this on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] in case it helps anyone else.
If would seem that having the NVdriver autoload causes the problem, as
well as not using Int10Module...
I'm not experienced enough to say *why* this works but it does:
1. Put a line in the Driver section for the TNT2 card (the PCI, secondary
card):
Option "UseInt10Module" "On"
2. Load the NVdriver BEFORE starting the X server:
$ insmod NVdriver
This fixed the problem for me :)
If the line above is not there, or I let the driver auto-load, then the
server hangs. The "nv" driver works out-of-the-box, this is JUST for the
nvidia driver "nvidia".
I found my way to the solution via the nv news forum - there's some
useful stuff there: http://www.nvnews.net/forum/
Thanks to all who replied,
David
NZ
On Tue, 7 May 2002, David Antliff wrote:
>
> Hi, I was hoping someone might be able to assist me with this problem.
>
> Originally I had a dual head setup with my GeForce2 Pro and a Matrox
> Millenium card. Unfortunately there is an issue with GLX so I couldn't run
> anything accelerated.
>
> So I purchased an Nvidia TNT2 PCI card to complement my Ge2, because I
> read at:
>
> http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-April/016624.html
>
> That:
>
> > > 2) NVIDIA's OpenGL works in non-Xinerama when all heads are NVIDIA
> > > cards.
>
> Now, here's the problem:
>
> When I start up the x server with the "nvidia" driver
> (NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2802) screen 0 starts up fine (although the window
> manager - fluxbox - doesn't load an image onto the root window) however
> screen 1 (connected to the TNT2) "Freezes" on the Nvidia logo. I tried
> disabling the logo and it froze on a blank white screen instead. Although
> screen 0 appears to have started properly, the mouse can only be moved and
> the buttons are not recognised. According to 'top', the XFree86 process is
> sitting there on 99.4% utilisation.
>
> I haven't found a way to kill the X server when it's at this point -
> CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE doesn't work and 'killall -9 XFree86' and even 'init 6'
> cause linux to lock up totally (screen 0 'corrupts' to a mass of
> horizontal grey stripes and screen 1 stays white or displays the logo,
> depending on the XF86Config-4 option) requiring a hard reset. Can't even
> ssh in from another box at this point. Doesn't even return a ping.
>
> Funnily enough, dual head works absolutely fine when I use the "nv"
> driver. At least I get my desktop but no hardware acceleration :(
>
> I've tried various things like swapping the Screen load order around,
> enabling/disabling logo, but I'm now at a loss - what can I try?
>
> Any help that anyone can offer I'd really appreciate.
>
> Thanks!
> David
> NZ
>
> P.S. I've found this - is it relevant?
>
> Multicard, Multimonitor
> In some cases, the secondary card is not initialized correctly
> by the NVdriver kernel module. You can work around this by
> enabling the XFree86 Int10 module to soft-boot all secondary cards
>
> Option "UseInt10Module" "boolean"
>
> I tried this out and it had zero effect on the problem.
>
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