On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Rick wrote:
--- Marc Aurele La France <tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Rick wrote:
--- Marc Aurele La France <tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Rick wrote:
I am trying to configure my system for dual display,
using two single-head display adapters.
I have attached relevant files.
Both sets of display hardware are recognized by PCI
scans. However, when XFree86 starts, it reports that
there is "No matching device section" for the second
set of display hardware. (Please refer to attached
files). I do have two sections in XF86Config with
correct (I think) PCI addresses set up. I cannot
understand why it cannot find the device section for
00:13:00.
I don't see anything obvious in what you've attached
so far. Please attach /var/log/XFree86.0.log.
I accidentally omitted the log file in the original
mailing. Here it is.
The problem seems to be that your layout section
specifies only one screen.
Or did you already try that?
I uncommented the second screen specification in the
layout section and tried starting X. According to the
log file (attached) that does indeed seem to take care
of the "No matching device section" for the second
video card - it now identifies both cards with their
appropriate device setions. However, there is now a
different problem. If you look at the log file, there
are two errors, "Cannot read V_BIOS" for the second
display adapter, and X eventually hangs with multiple
notifications of "SMI_GEReset called from smi_accel.c
line xxx" (xxx being several different line numbers),
shown at the end of the log file.
Any idea what is happening?
My guess is that the 0:13:0 adapter is on the motherboard. That's rather
unusual given it's a PCI adapter on a motherboard that also provides AGP.
Anyway, if this is the case, your system BIOS probably provides the onboard
adapter's BIOS only when it is the primary. Assuming your system BIOS allows
you to, try designating the 0:13:0 device as primary adapter.
The repeated AGP engine resets are perhaps related. I don't really know.
Perhaps someone else will pipe in.
Marc.
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