Re: Mostly successful with Backstreet Ruby but lost VT1

[Svetoslav S. <ga...@st...>]

Quoting Aiv...@un...:
> >I've got an AGP GeForce3 and a PCI GeForce2 in my system and I'm using
> >nVidia's binary drivers.  I first tried the kernel-only solution but my
> >system crashed with bizarre patterns on my screens.  Fine, so I switched
> >to Andreas Schuldei's binaries for the patched XFree86 3.0 and these
> >worked, but only if I probe my GeForce2 first, i.e.:
> >
> >        /usr/X11R6/bin/X -probeonly -layout Small
> >        /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 -layout Small -prefbusid 2:7:0 vt8 &
> >
> >after which I load gdm, which starts the other X server on the AGP
> >card.  It seems odd that I have to probe the PCI card right before
> >starting the PCI card (this isn't about which card comes first), but
> >that's what worked.
> 
> Seems nvidia closed source kernel module must be loaded with all
> video cards in use. "X -probeonly" uses all video cards on system, but
> "X -prefbusid" hide unnecessary cards and xf86 known about one actual
> card. After "X -probeonly" kernel module "nvidia" stay active in the
> kernel user can start properly initialized Nvidia cards in any order.
> After module "nvidia" removing X must be probed again.

can you explain a bit more ?
in what situation is this needed?

 
> >I made some small changes to a program called "qiv" to behave itself
> >better when it displays the photograph (such as hiding the mouse
> >pointer).  Yay, open source!
> >
> >Here's the part where I need help.  Now when I press Ctrl-Alt-F1, the
> >main display switches back to the text-only console BUT it's "greyed
> >out"!  Both the foreground text and background look grey--the text is
> >darker than it should be and the background is lighter.  I can read text
> >on it but I cannot type anything to it.  This alarms me because I like
> >dropping out of X once and a while and getting a command line.  Any
> >ideas?
> 
> ??? 1st must be started xf86 on VGA, then 2nd. This will not work
> alltime. 2nd server clean up VGA fonts :(
> 
> >During my experimenting I did try having gdm launch both X servers as
> >explained in the HOWTO.  When I did this, instead of launching one
> >myself, I was able to use VT1 but suffered the garbage font problem.
> >Typing "consolechars -d" fixed it immediately.  I don't care about this,
> >because I don't want gdm to launch both servers,
> 
> any shell script can start number of xf86 servers.

but wont be there a problem,
that all X servers are running under the same user ?

best,

svetljo