Hi all, It seems to be working now, I moved the PC to a different room, and a different monitor, and low and behold, I have a display..
Is there a way to tell if the card is using all its ram? (apart from testing it at high res with true color.) Just want to make sure its all working.. I was going to install the invidia 3D drivers for kicks, but I need to install a supermount safe kernel at some stage, and that would break the drivers wouldn't it? If I load the drivers for 2.4.8 and then load 2.4.16-11 or something, would it be a good idea to use rpm to remove the old nvidia drivers, and compile new ones? or just compile and install the new ones and install them over the old ones??? Sorry for being a pain tonight, I was sure it was a conflict, I just wasn't expecting one that included the monotor, especially when I had tried it with the lowest common denominator as far as monitors go, and several others. weird stuff hey! Thanks for all your help guys.. I do have one more question I'd like to ask though.. Here is what I need on a server I am doing for a guy. working GUI, (got that using FBdev) (its the netvista) Samba for XP and 2000 (can get that off cooker ok.) Latest Postfix to use with amavisd and filescan. (can get and install that too.) The bit I still have to work out is the kernel. It needs to be safe with supermount, stable and solid, and hopefully with better memory management then 2.4.8 and I need the matching headers, iptables, and initscripts... unfortunatly, short of getting all of the latest off cooker, I am alittle unsure what to do here.. I don't know what iptables goes with what kernel, and what initscripts... and I don't know if its safe to update to the cooker glibc in order to get the headers. Its all very confusing..... :-) I got myself into trouble just installing cooker stuff in the past (rpmdrake is a case in point.) So I don't want to clag up this server like I did my own home one. Personally, I think Mandrake should have waited for the above criteria before releasing 8.1. but thats just me. :-) any suggestions anyone??? rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Friday, 4 January 2002 3:29 AM To: Linux Mandrake Expert Mailing List; Ed Tharp Subject: RE: [expert] 2 Video cards, a inbuilt Matrox Mystique and a 32Mb Nvidia TNT2vanta ctrl-alt-F9 gives nothing but a flashing cursor at the top.. ctrl-alt-F7 makes the screen sound like its changing resolution, but the screen is still back, and the last line showing in ctrl-alt-F1 (from which I started X) still has (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: Mouse) and has not returned to the console prompt, though it does if I do ctrl-alt-backspace. then it tells me that the connection to X was broken. any ideas? rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: Ed Tharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 4 January 2002 3:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] 2 Video cards, a inbuilt Matrox Mystique and a 32Mb Nvidia TNT2vanta try ctrl+alt+f9? On Thursday 03 January 2002 13:48, you wrote: > I have the powerpack CD's, so I tried the option of using the nvidia > drivers, and tried just the mesa drivers.. > It gives you the option to use just Xfree 4.x, or Xfree 4.x and the Nvidia > drivers. (it also lists Xfree 3.x and 3.x with experimental 3d drivers.. > but I didn't try them...) > > in the xconfig file, (its X 4.something, whatever is the 8.1 ver 4 Xfree) > the card is identified as a TNT2, and is using the nv driver. wouldnt' a > conflict cause X to crash? > > It just sits there, but the connection to X is still there, If I > ctrl-alt-backspace, I drop back to the console.. so X is running, its just > not doing anything. > > rgds > > Frank > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Onur Kucuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 4 January 2002 2:46 AM > To: Franki > Subject: Re: [expert] 2 Video cards, a inbuilt Matrox Mystique and a > 32Mb Nvidia TNT2vanta > > > > F> Hi all, > > F> I have an IBM 300PL (233mmx, with 160MB ram.) > > F> It has an inbuilt Matrox Mystique with 2MB and I have added a 32mb > TNT2vanta > F> to it. > > F> the Matrox card does not have a jumper to disable it that I can see. > > F> When I run drakxconf, it finds both cards and I ask it to install just > the > F> TNT2. > > F> It does this, and setting the resolution and monitor type go just fine. > > F> however the riva is showing up in the X11 conf file as having 2MB of > ram, F> which is what the bios says the matrox has. > > F> so I corrected that, and changed it to 32768 with is 1024 times 32. > > F> saved that, backed out of the conf file and started X with "startx > icewm" > > F> I get no errors showing up, the system does alot of stuff, but the > screen F> shows nothing at all, its blank.. > F> (this happens with the ram set at 2mb or 32... makes no difference.) > > F> no errors at all, nothing in the logs.. its all go, just a blank screen. > its > F> got me beat... > F> If I go back to the first console, the one I started X from, the last > line > F> on the screen is this: > > F> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: Mouse) > > F> and it just sits there... does that mean its not a video problem??? I > am at > F> a loss as to what it is... > > F> sorta beats the purpose of having a TNT2 in the box hey!!! > > > F> Any ideas on how to disable the inbuilt video, (I downloaded the user > and F> tech manuals from the IBM site, but neither mention disabling the > card.) > > F> So I am in something of a quandry... I don't want to go back to the > Matrox, > F> but its lookin like I will have to. > > > F> rgds > > F> Frank > > > There is a conflict certainly. Did you check what is selected as > driver ? A few lines above the one that you set up your video cards > ram, is it set to "nv" ? > > You can force X to use the certain PCI bus, that is of your tnt2. > lspci ( lispci -v )will give you info about it and all you have to do is > to edit > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. > > I would advice you use the nvidia drivers from nvidia's website. Most > probably it will solve all this without forcing the pci bus. > > Onur Kucuk > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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