Re: Can someone point me towards a fix for this...?

[Aivils <ai...@un...>]

On Monday 23 August 2004 17:14, James van Zeeland wrote:
> 3 consoles, custom ruby kernel 2.6.7 merged with con kolivas and
> stanford uni's planet ccrma patchsets plus a heap of usb fixes and
> whatnot. Fedora Core 2
> 
> Athlon 2600+ 7NNXP 1Gb (nForce2)
> 
> 1 x AGP console FX5200
> 2 x PCI console GF4MX440
> 
> using three servers defined in gdm.conf, console 1 starts OK, console 2
> starts OK, console three however does the following.
> X server starts and we have mouse action, but gdm doesn't start. After a
> bit of a wait, it closes and restarts. The restart is not frequent
> enough to get the usual "failed to start, will disable until correctly
> configured." dialogue
> 
> What's interesting is that if I disable the third server in gdm, drop to
> console and "startx -- :2 -layout PCI-Console2 -audit 0 vt19",
> everything starts fine, and I have three consoles.
> 
> If I change the init order of the PCI X servers, it's always the third
> server that fails. Problem with gdm?
> 
> I am glad for the patch page, I was considering doing that myself...

Please try before gdm starts commad
X -probeonly -layout noprefbusid
where noprefbusid is unrestricted xf86, which can use all video
adapters. This is necessary for proper multiple Nvidia adapters init.

Aivils