On Tuesday 17 January 2006 19:03, M.Blackmore wrote:
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 17:05 -0500, BandiPat wrote:
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Ok, it seems the problems persist no matter if one or two cards are installed, so go ahead and put the Matrox back in for this test. Let's try this then and it will require a bit of command line stuff for a moment, but it's painless. ;o)
<feels molar gingerly>
ctrl-alt-F1 login as root at root prompt type: init 3 (this stops X, kills all graphics)
Already in there - not booting to gui
now type: sax2 -m 0=nvidia (this should start sax2 gui using the nvidia card as the base) If all goes well, sax2 should start,
Whoops... SaX: ups lost card during probing ... abort pooter:~#
Which card I wonder, did it lose?
I stumbled across something in yast which indicates that the OS knows about the matrox millenium card, under system>pci drivers>pci card setup
The matrox is listed as being in there, but I don't know what to do with it (add it? What criteria/settings?)...
Ooohh, I suppose this is character forming. So is trying to run a gui (xfce4) on a 128mb P350 - but, hey, at least that one works! Well, with patience.
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Ok, remove the Matrox card and rerun the steps I suggested. If it works then, it's quite likely the new nVidia driver just doesn't like sharing things. If you get the same "lost card" thing, then try: sax2 -r That command will make it do a new search. You can also do sax2 -p, which will give you info on what sax2 has found in the system either in PCI or AGP or both. Might be a good idea to try that first just to see if it's finding your card/s. Since you are using a LCD monitor and I've found those can be somewhat problematic for sax2, you might also try sax2 -l, to see if using a lores screen will get into the setup gui. Lee