On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:08:28 -0600 (MDT) Marc Aurele La France <tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Asri Sulaiman wrote: > > > Marc Aurele La France wrote: > > >> Your options, at this point, are to talk to Dell (dead end), give up on the > > >> onboard adapter in multihead, replace your motherboard, or get a system that's > > >> not so broken. Or, as I suggested above, atyfb _might_ come in handy for a > > >> change. > > > I would like to try atyfb first. But please forgive > > my ignorance. What would be the best way to set it up? > > > I found atyfb.o in > > /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/video/aty > > "modprobe atyfb" seems ok at first, but system hang when > > I do "init 3". > > Well, I did say atyfb _might_ work, not _would_ work. > > > Put modprobe in rc.local, and it hang during boot. (Fortunately > > I found the install CD needed to do a rescue. A good side > > effect: it moved me to convert all my ext2 partition to ext3 > > so recovery would not be so long next time I hit "reset") > > > Adding "Load atyfb" in the XF86Config file, Section "Module": > > it says module not found in XF86 log. > > Right. atyfb is a kernel module, not an XFree86 one. > > Marc. Thank you for your help. Though I'd add a postcript to this post. I have accepted the fact that though it may work on other PC's with different BIOS, I am never going to get my Dell Optiplex to be dual-headed with a PCI and the on-board AGP adapter. Judging from the response and net search, this problem is not as common as I thought it would be. I plan to get a cheap 2nd PCI adapter temporarily. For longer term I am looking at a dual-head ATI Radeon which is common here in Melbourne, Australia. I still have not heard of fix to nvidia (8k/4k stack issue?) for linux kernel 2.6+ Comments anyone? Thank You. -Asri Sulaiman _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
