Re: Mostly successful with Backstreet Ruby but lost VT1

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>> >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 ?

2nd xf86 Nvidia closed source driver report "Unable load kernel moudule",
if 1st xf86 started with -prefbusid option.

>in what situation is this needed?

If user have 2 or more Nvidia cards in one box.

>> >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 ?

"login -f wildtransilvaniadude". for auto login may be used mingetty
or agetty. parse inet. IMHO 2nd display on the wall do not needs for
login promt.

Aivils