Re: Two Nvidia cards, and black screen

[<han...@sa...>]

Hi,

You need to apply the attached patches to your x.org 6.8.2 source tree, 
and recompile. The options should work after that.

-Hans

> Hi,
> 
> I am having the same problem with the two NVidia cards
> GeForce4 MX4000 AGP 8x and GeForce FX5200 PCI on
> Debian unstable with Ruby patched kernel 2.6.12. I am
> using the NVidia driver version 7676.
> 
> I read somewhere that I should use the -sharevts
> option when starting the second X server. I tried, but
> this option is not recognized. How should I do this?
> 
> Thanks a bunch!
> 
> Andrej
> 
> --- han...@sa... wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I have 1 NVIDIA Gefore FX 5200 PCI, and one NVIDIA
> > Gefore 6600 PCI-E 
> > card. I have both X servers set up correctly so that
> > they run without 
> > any problem seperatly (with different keyboards and
> > mice). Both X 
> > servers use the nvidia close source 6629 driver.
> > 
> > My problem is that whenever I try to start the
> > second X server, while 
> > the first one is already running, the monitor
> > connected to the first X 
> > server goes black (monitor is turned off/signal
> > lost). The xserver 
> > itself however continues running, and all
> > applications (like music from 
> > xmms) also continue running. There are no errors in
> > any log files. There 
> > is no difference when trying to start the X servers
> > in the opposite 
> > order. Starting the second X server always kills the
> > display of the one 
> > already running.
> > 

> > I have tried to turn the monitor back on with "xset
> > dpms dorce on 
> > -display :0.0", but this doesn't help.
> > 
> > I'm running x.org 6.8.2 with the IsloateDevice
> > patch. I'm actually not 
> > running ruby anymore, but I'm using the evdev driver
> > for the separate 
> > keyboards/mice
> > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=968),
> > so in 
> > a sence I'm posting to the "wrong" list, but I guess
> > people here are the 
> > most experienced with these kind of setups.
> > 
> > The PCI card is also set as the primary graphics
> > card in bios, otherwise 
> > it didn't work at all.
> > 
> > Thanks for any help on this!
> > 
> > -Hans
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
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