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Two Video Cards--Xconfigurator Gets Wrong One

Post by Jeremy Jone » Wed, 12 May 1999 04:00:00



Hey...

I've just set up a dual boot machine in my office--win98 and RedHat Linux
6.0.  Under win98, I run dual monitors, using a Diamond SpeedStar A50 8mb
AGP as my primary and a Cirrus Logic 5446 2mb PCI.  Running Xconfigurator
under Linux, the only card picked up is the Cirrus 5446, though my actual
display remains on the monitor attached to the AGP card.  If I remove the
Cirrus card, reboot Linux, and run the Xconfigurator, I am able to configure
the AGP card just fine.  If I put the Cirrus card back in after configuring
the AGP, getting X to work, and rebooting, there are fatal X server errors
when trying to startx.

I've scoured the BIOS, and discovered that I cannot disable the PCI slot
that the Cirrus card sits in--I thought I might be able to just disable it
when I wanted Linux, and enable it when I wanted win98.

So...

Is there any way to tell Linux to ignore that Cirrus card, maybe on boot?
Or at any other point critical to X?

I am a newbie with Linux... so please be patient.

Thanks
Jeremy Jones

 
 
 
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Two Video Cards--Xconfigurator Gets Wrong One

Post by dale.. » Wed, 12 May 1999 04:00:00


Instead of using Xconfigurator (which in my opinion gets everything
wrong) use either XF86Setup or xf86config and manually specify the card
you want to use.



> Hey...

> I've just set up a dual boot machine in my office--win98 and RedHat
Linux
> 6.0.  Under win98, I run dual monitors, using a Diamond SpeedStar A50
8mb
> AGP as my primary and a Cirrus Logic 5446 2mb PCI.  Running
Xconfigurator
> under Linux, the only card picked up is the Cirrus 5446, though my
actual
> display remains on the monitor attached to the AGP card.  If I remove
the
> Cirrus card, reboot Linux, and run the Xconfigurator, I am able to
configure
> the AGP card just fine.  If I put the Cirrus card back in after
configuring
> the AGP, getting X to work, and rebooting, there are fatal X server
errors
> when trying to startx.

> I've scoured the BIOS, and discovered that I cannot disable the PCI
slot
> that the Cirrus card sits in--I thought I might be able to just
disable it
> when I wanted Linux, and enable it when I wanted win98.

> So...

> Is there any way to tell Linux to ignore that Cirrus card, maybe on
boot?
> Or at any other point critical to X?

> I am a newbie with Linux... so please be patient.

> Thanks
> Jeremy Jones


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