To cut a long story short, there was obviously a misunderstanding here and nowhere previously (unless I missed it, which is very possible) was it mentioned that there was a BIOS update that would solve the problem of not being able to *disable* the on-board display. Once I applied this, all was plain sailing. I was confused Brent when you were trying to tell me how to configure the second video card when I was sitting, looking at a monitor connected to the on-board card. Anyway, thanks again for your help, Ross On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:20:08 -0500 Brent Fox <bfox@redhat.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:28:35PM +0000, Ross Macintyre wrote: > > > > Hi Brent, thanks again for spending time on this. > > I have decided that my best approach here is to try your XF86Config > > file first, and if that fails then I will do as you suggest and install > > the older RPMs(I'm fairly comfortable with this). OK, but what confuses > > me is this: > > I'm sitting at the machine looking at the monitor which is conected to > > the on-board video. Now what is the best way to test if the display is > > working? Normally I would just try 'startx'. But does this not display > > to the monitor I am currently using? Or am I supposed to connect the > > monitor to new video connector? maybe the best way is to connect the > > monitor to the new connector and do all the testing remotely? Login and > > just try and start X or xdm? > > Well, since the XFree86 in 8.0 doesn't work with the onboard video > card, I would recommend only connecting the monitor to the add-in > card. I would't recommend doing the testing remotely...just do it > locally on the machine. > > An easy way to test if X is working is just to run "X" at the command > line. This will only try to start X instead of the entire desktop. > All you should see is a mouse cursor on a black background. > > > I am obviously missing something very basic here( and would probably be > > better off installing the old RPMs) but there must be something in the > > XF86Config file wich says use monitorA and not monitorB. > > Actually now I've decided to look at the /var/log/XFree86.0.log file I > > can see that it see the device ok but there is something wrong > > in the XF86Config file/ I'll attach the output log and see if that > > gives you any hints: > > (WW) s3: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:4:0) found > > (EE) No devices detected. > > The XF86Config file is telling X to try the s3 driver, but it looks > like there's no monitor connected to the S3 card. That is probably > what is making X fail to load. It's hard for me to say without having > a similar machine to try things out with. > > > Cheers, > Brent > -- Ross Macintyre Heriot-Watt University raz@macs.hw.ac.uk -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
