You'll want to be running 4.2 (we don't support older servers).
Which card is the primary? ie, which one does the console come up
on?
Mark.
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, dave crane wrote:
> I'm really at the end of my rope here. Since 4.1 came out i have had to
> revert on every release back to 4.0.3. I think I finally have come to a
> conclusion its not 'cuz I'm a _complete_ dumbass.
>
> overall setup:
> tyan thunder K7 2x1.2mp 768ram
> agp: matrox g450
> pci cards tried:
> tnt2 m64, tnt2 vanta (are they the same?)
> 3dfx voodoo 3,4
> ati radeon 7500
>
> on the exact same hardware/distro, i can get the TNT's to work correctly
> with 4.0.3/xinerama.
>
> in 4.1 and 4.2 it appears the keyboard is frozen (i can still ssh in and
> reboot, but the displays stayed screwed. either pretty fades from
> red->blue->black on the screen or plain black). the common deniminator
> from a visual perspective is that under > 4.0.3 the bios looking readout
> is not displayed for the tnt2's (secondary screen) on startup of X. this
> led me to beleive that 4.0.3 was somehow initializing differently than >
> 4.0.3.
>
> the log files only have 1 difference:
>
> (EE) NV(1): Cannot read V_BIOS.
> (EE) ATI(1): Cannot read V_BIOS.
> (EE) TDFX(1): Cannot read V_BIOS.
>
> everything except X is the same, and xinerama doesnt want to work.
>
> If I: start 4.0.3, three finder salute, start 4.1 or 4.2, the first time
> it works. subsequent starts of > 4.0.3 don't.
>
> if anyone wants config files (ive tried dozens, literally) or some other
> procedure please, please please, let me know.
>
> the majority of errors ive found related to this are on ppc's, and i
> have found none on intel where it was not a configuration (user) error,
> so my asbestos suit is on.
>
> TIA,
> dave
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