Re: secondary graphic card has no memory

[ludovic p. <pl...@nn...>]

Hello...

Le vendredi 24 Septembre 2004 00:46, Johannes Gajdosik a =E9crit :
> The result in both cases is the same: according to
> lspci -v the secondary display adapter has no memory.
> Anyway it did not crash my computer.

That is strange... Maybe the normal way of configuring pci devices doesn'=
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work on amd64 kernel.=20
That was my problem (due to the hackvideo thing), and in this case, X rep=
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no errors but silently fails to set the pci configuration...
Can you try the same setpci command with the swithch -H1 ? It asks setpci=
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bypass the kernel when accessing the pci bus.

> Up to now only one configuration has some promising results:
> MGA is primary, NVidia secondary, i386 kernel:
> In this case I can start the first XServer on the NVidia (vt7),
> and then a second Xserver on the MGA (vt17). Both Xservers
> have the prefbusid patch.

That looks like a virtual console problem...=20
If the MGA is primay, I suppose it is used for the vga console display. I=
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this case you should start the MGA x server on vt7, and NVidia on vt17.
Appart from the keyboard problem, is the first server really dead ?=20
(ie does it respond to mouse click ... ) If not, you can try killing the =
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server with the SIGUSR1 signal.

And are you sure that the prefbusid is correctly set ? I think it is deci=
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while lspci reports hexadecimal bus id...

Ludovic Pollet
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