Re: intel DQ965GF and nVidia PCI woes

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On 8/1/07, michael <cs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 15:26 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
> > On 01/08/07, Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On 8/1/07, michael <cs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Folks, I'm new to Fedora so please excuse anything I'm ignorant about!
> > > > Having said that, I've been Googling about and trying different things
> > > > for a couple of days so I think it's now time to ask the experts (you!).
> > > >
> > > > I've got a new box, it's got a intel DQ965GF mobo, with 2 SATA disks
> > > > (LVM) and came with Fedora 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 running on it. I wanted to
> > > > put my old nVidia geForce fx 5200 (PCI card) into it to allow me to use
> > > > both my TFTs. However, when I do this it gets to the GRUB menu, starts
> > > > to load a kernel (is that the right phrase) and then falls over. If I
> > > > leave the card in but tell the BIOS to use the internal graphics it
> > > > boots okay. But when return BIOS to auto detect or explicitly use the
> > > > nVidia card it falls over during boot. I've tried appending
> > > >  acpi=off
> > > >  pci=nommconf
> > > > at the end of the GRUB boot command but with no success. Generally the
> > > > failure messages say (at about the time there's agpgart messages):
> > > >   general protection fault 0000[1] SMP
> > > >
> > > > I'm at a loss as to why it's not working!
> > >
> > > Most likely the motherboard was never meant to boot with an external
> > > graphics card.
> > >
> >
> > While I can't suggest what might be wrong (maybe see
> > if it's possible to boot to runlevel 3: add the single digit '3' at
> > the end of the kernel line), it sounds like the motherboard is
> > happily starting up with the graphics card, and if the BIOS
> > has an option to not use an add-on card then it it's natural
> > to think the flip side is to use one.  Sounds like a driver issue.
> >
> > The OP doesn't have two displays plugged in by any chance?
> > (And by that I mean two cables, even if they go to the same
> > monitor.) The nv driver doesn't like doing dual-head.
>
> I'm pretty sure it will take an ext graphics card. It is indeed for
> dual-head that I wish to use this card (I've used it and 'nv' (under
> Debian) in the past.
>
> Runlevel 3 hangs... does some ACPI, does some agpgart then hangs. Can't
> see an obvious error message
>
>
> > But which driver?  From the initial description it sounds like things
> > are going south well before X even starts up, and a graphics card this
> > old has worked fine under vesa, nv & nvidia X drivers for ages now.
> >
>
> yes, it's before we get to X. I'm wondering if its a detection of SATA and PCI issue...
>
> anybody out there got this mobo and used PCI okay or had to do workaround?

Have you verified that you're using the latest motherboard BIOS?

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