On Monday 08 August 2005 11:53 am, Gil Weber wrote:
** Reply to message from Stan Glasoe
on Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:56:10 -0500 OK, I moved the video card from slot 2 to slot 1 (remember, it's a small case). But upon restart the computer crashed. It would not load the GUI. Right. It shouldn't. Config is set to find video in the other PCI slot. Got part way through the boot up and came to a point where it asked me for user name and then my password. Enter root/password combo -or- on the boot command line enter a 3 for the "init 3" equivalent of starting without X/GUI.
I did that and then entered "startx." The screen flashed and then up came a whole bunch more lines of text ending with "Fatal error" text and I could go no farther. I would have coached you to enter "init 3" instead of "startx" and then done the "sax2 -l -m 0=nv" to get a base xorg.conf file going.
I turned off the pooter and tried again twice. Same thing. Well you stopped instead of continuing to do something you know doesn't work so we know you aren't (too) crazy... So I put the card back into slot 2 and the computer started up fine!! Your system is setup/config'd to these settings. The video still sucks, but at least the computer is running. Original problem, no? So, what do you think, coach? I'd send you to the showers but I'm afraid you'd think it a good idea to find an extension cord so you could clean the dust out of the computer while you're in there! Just kidding! The file you told me to look in has no reference to either Nvidia or nv, and when I switch PCI slots the pooter won't boot and crashes.
VERY strange.
Gil
- Power off. - Put the video card back in the first PCI slot. - When the system boots up to the grub/lilo choices enter "3" without quotes in the boot command line. Hit enter. - Login as root. - Enter "sax2 -l -m 0=nv" without quotes, at the command prompt, press enter. Remember that's a lower case ell not a numeral one. - We should see the sax2 config window and you should be able to choose your GeForce FX 5500 there. - Verify the monitor config while you're at it. If these steps don't work then power off and put the card back in the PCI slot you had it in and start at the grub/lilo step. Stan