And forgot to mention that sometimes you can physically disable a video card with a jumper on the motherboard. B=) On Thursday 10 February 2005 02:34 pm, Brad Bourn wrote:

The BIOS should be disabling the on-board video. If it is not, I'd first check for a BIOS update.

Otherwise, you can be seeing errors and reports that aren't what is actually happening.

If you want dual monitor support, I believe you need the proprietary driver from nvidia. The easiest way to get that us to use YOU to install the 'fetchnvidia' patch.

This will download the driver and see if that helps you. You will most likely end up configuring the XF86Config file by hand.

Once you download the patch, you can find out more information (and the installer itself) in /usr/share/doc/nvidia I believe. The file /var/log/nvidia-installer(something) file will tell you the exact location. Then you can read up on the setting for XF86Config file to get TwinView or whatever you like......

B)

On Thursday 10 February 2005 02:22 pm, mlist@safenet-inc.com wrote:

...

DELL Optiplex GX280 with onboard video, but I have added a PNY Technologies nVidia Quadro FX 1300 dual-head card. The system BIOS shows that the primary video adapter is now the nVidia. My two DELL P1110 monitors are connected to the nVidia's video outputs, and nothing is connected to the on-motherboard video.

It works beautifully in Win XP -- classic dual-head mode at 1280x1024@85Hz.

I added a second SATA drive and installed SuSE 9.2 Pro from CDs for dual boot. I cannot configure (in YaST and SaX2) to use the nVidia card.

SaX2 always detects the on-board video (and somehow detects ONE of the two DELL P1110 monitors that are connected to the nVidia board. No displays are connected to the onboard video connector. SaX2 cannot detect the nVidia board. I can choose a similar card from the SaX2 pick list, and then select "Dual-Monitor", but then SaX2 cannot detect the two monitors when the video-card setting is imposed.

SaX2 either quits abruptly or it writes two monitor sections to xorg.conf, but at 640x480 only. If it gets as far as the pre-confirmation "Test", then it displays 640x480 on only one monitor. If I exit and reboot, X and KDE come up with single display at 1280x1024@85Hz, which seems to be the "unused" onboard video adapter. I'm guessing that the nVidia is accepting the instructions intended for the other adapter and doing the best it can. Again, there are no monitors physically connected to the original on-motherboard video adapter.

I don't know how to persuade SaX2 to ingnore the on-motherboard video (the way BIOS says to do), nor do I know how to make SaX2 accept changes from its pick lists.

When the system boots, the Linux startup messages display on BOTH monitors, until X starts. Then one monitor shuts off. So, something is being explicitly shut off when X launches. In other words, it's not that the nVidia is not there to be found. Rather it is there to be deliberately ignored.

Any suggestions? I have updated all packages (including nVidia driver) via YOU. That was the preferred instruction in the "SuSE 9.2-IA32" section of "nvidia-installer-HOWTO#1".

Is there something that I should edit directly in xorg.conf? Is there a section that I should include in a future post for your examination?

Thank you for your time.

Kevin

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Cool, looks like sax2 is getting a little better.... B-) On Thursday 10 February 2005 03:57 pm, Philipp Thomas wrote:

Brad Bourn [Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:34:38 -0700]:

...

This will download the driver and see if that helps you. You will most likely end up configuring the XF86Config file by hand.

No need for that :) If you want one desktop to span two monitors (NVidia calls this twinview), then instead of doing 'sax2 -m 0=nvidia' do 'sax2 -m 0=nvidia -b /usr/X11R6/lib/sax/profiles/Nvidia_TwinView' (check the file name, I'm not completely sure about it). This should configure things correctly.

Philipp