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Re: I'm half on my way...to get it going. (long)

[<Aiv...@un...>]

>I bought a NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 PCI Card
>and set up my XF86Config-4 (see attachment).
>My first card is still a 5600XT.
>
>I tried with and without echo "1" > ...hackvideo

On the right way.

>I'm running the 2.6.0-ruby debian source package, with the debian 4.3
>XServer. Nvidia driver 5336.
>
># cat /proc/bus/console/*/*
>isa0060/serio0/input0
>usb-0000:00:02.2-1.4/input0
>
>I created links X0 and X1 to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
>My startup commands are:
>X1 :1 -layout sesam1 vt17
>X0 :0 -layout sesam0 vt7
>
>If I'm starting X1  I got something like a freeze: on the console I get
>the ouput of the start then the console freezes (but I can reeboot).
>remote admin is working,too.

xf86 blocks VGA output. Manualy start second xf86 sever You can
only from xterm. Also gdm desktop manager can do this work.

>The log of a test with X1 :0 -layout sesam1 vt17 is attached.
>My configuration works with Xinerama flawlessly.
>

Aivils Stoss

Re: I'm half on my way...to get it going.

[Peter S. <pet...@gm...>]

Aiv...@un... wrote:

> xf86 blocks VGA output. Manualy start second xf86 sever You can
> only from xterm. Also gdm desktop manager can do this work.
> 
> 
Nope. Again if I'm trying to start a server on the second card (gdm or 
xterm) the Xserver init seems to stop (see log). The started process 
("X1 :2 -layout sesam1 vt17") can't be killed.

The IRQs of the cards are different:
            CPU0
   0:   75535198          XT-PIC  timer
   1:      12217          XT-PIC  i8042
   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
   3:    3044317          XT-PIC  eth0
   4:        547          XT-PIC  eth1
   5:      39153          XT-PIC  ohci_hcd
   8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
  10:       5600          XT-PIC  SiS SI7012, nvidia
  11:    5939092          XT-PIC  ide2, ide3, nvidia
  12:        163          XT-PIC  ohci_hcd, saa7146 (0)
  14:     260451          XT-PIC  ide0
  15:         30          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0
ERR:          0

Has anyone any luck with getting two nvidia cards with the 5336 driver 
up and running? I have actually no clue where to start the debugging.
Could 2.6.2-ruby solve my problem?

Peter

Re: I'm half on my way...to get it going.

[Peter S. <pet...@gm...>]

Peter Schrammel wrote:
> Aiv...@un... wrote:
> 
>> xf86 blocks VGA output. Manualy start second xf86 sever You can
>> only from xterm. Also gdm desktop manager can do this work.
>>
>>
> Nope. Again if I'm trying to start a server on the second card (gdm or 
> xterm) the Xserver init seems to stop (see log). The started process 
> ("X1 :2 -layout sesam1 vt17") can't be killed.
> 
> The IRQs of the cards are different:
>            CPU0
>   0:   75535198          XT-PIC  timer
>   1:      12217          XT-PIC  i8042
>   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>   3:    3044317          XT-PIC  eth0
>   4:        547          XT-PIC  eth1
>   5:      39153          XT-PIC  ohci_hcd
>   8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
>  10:       5600          XT-PIC  SiS SI7012, nvidia
>  11:    5939092          XT-PIC  ide2, ide3, nvidia
>  12:        163          XT-PIC  ohci_hcd, saa7146 (0)
>  14:     260451          XT-PIC  ide0
>  15:         30          XT-PIC  ide1
> NMI:          0
> ERR:          0
> 
> Has anyone any luck with getting two nvidia cards with the 5336 driver 
> up and running? I have actually no clue where to start the debugging.
> Could 2.6.2-ruby solve my problem?
I found a hint that there could be something wrong with the nvidia 
driver: If I start the second X server I always get a segfault, but 
after  that the interrupt table looks like above. The nvidia driver does 
not release the interrupt. If I start the second X server again it 
hangs. Of course. Again...damn closed source :-((

Peter

Re: I'm half on my way...to get it going.

[Peter S. <pet...@gm...>]

I think I'm giving up....

Now I'm useing the nvidia (closed source driver) for my first head, and 
the nvidia (open source driver) for my second head (no dri). nothing hangs!!
But I have still problems:
The second head doesn't wake up. The logfiles are ok. But the monitor 
stays dark. If I config the PCI card to the be primary head in the BIOS, 
it's the other way round. Could this be caused by some missing POST calls?

Another thing is that the XServer with the nv driver is useing the CPU 
to 100%.

Hm... going to buy a Matrox card...

BTW: Compiled 2.6.2 kernel with ruby, no fb-support.

Re: I'm half on my way...to get it going.

[Peter S. <pet...@gm...>]

Here I go again...sorry for bothering you but perhaps it's some usefull 
input.

I got two consoles running. But something strange happens:
When gdm starts up the first X-Server everything's fine (mouse und 
keyboard inputs are ok)
but as it starts up the second X-Server the first freezes (no mouse 
movement and no keyboard action).

The second X-Server is fully functional. If I do a
'cat /dev/input/event0' (the keyboard of X-Server 1) and hit keys I get 
some output. The same with /dev/input/mouse0. It seems that the  start 
of the second X-server locks something. BTW if I'm useing the closed 
source nvidia diver in X-Server 1 I get the same but with 100% CPU load.
Again no clue where to go from here...thanks for your help in advance.

Peter

Kernel 2.6.3-ruby, XFree-4.3.0-pre (Debian)
No fb. No DRI.
Card 1: NVIDIA 5600XT
Card 2: Matrox Mystique
2 Usb mice, 1 ps2 keyboard,1 usb-keyboard