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 ?
> 
> 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.

can you give some more details as i'll have to add it to the howto,
and smth strange(may be luck) i got user report that it works without the
-probeonly.

> >> >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

just did it before a while,
and came with "su [username] -c "startx -- ......."

Jiri Mlika(jiri.mlika[at]skoda[dot]cz) is tring to setup a system with multiple
rdesktop logins (and not to use dual login, first display manager and then rdesktop)

best,

svetljo