Unfortunately the drivers (and xserver) from the trunk doesn't seem to make much of a difference. At least not in a good way--X now locks up on the AGP card if EXA is enabled... <div>On 3/16/06, Thorsten Becker <<a href="mailto:thorsten.becker@gmx.de">thorsten.becker@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Le Jeudi 16 Mars 2006 16:13, Alex Deucher a écrit: > On 3/16/06, Thorsten Becker <<a href="mailto:thorsten.becker@gmx.de">thorsten.becker@gmx.de</a>> wrote: > > To create a dual seat system I bought a Readeon 7000 PCI card for my Dell > > Dimension 4550, which has a Radeon 9700 already installed. The Problem > > is: I can only get one card to work at a time. Trying to start an X > > server on the "wrong card" results in locking up the system (it doesn't > > even write an Xorg.0.log logfile) > > > > What I tried so far: > > > > BIOS settings: The somewhat crippled BIOS in the dell system only has a > > few settings that could be relevant: "Primary Video Controller" is one of > > them, it can be set to AGP or Auto. > > If set to AGP, the AGP card works, the vga console is shown on the > > Monitor that is connected to that card. I can start an X server for that > > card, and it works. > > If set to Auto, the PCI card works, and I can start an X server for that > > card. > > > > But If it is set to AGP, and I try to start an X server for the PCI card, > > the result is a complete system lockup, same the other way round. > > > > I tried to get some useful debugging output by starting X for the "wrong > > card" via ssh and get some information via the -verbose Option. Such a > > log can be found here: > > <a href="http://www.tuxdesk.de/Xremote.log">http://www.tuxdesk.de/Xremote.log</a> > > > > The xorg.conf can be found here: > > <a href="http://www.tuxdesk.de/xorg.conf.2120">http://www.tuxdesk.de/xorg.conf.2120 </a> > > > > One time a short Xorg log was written. I out it here: > > <a href="http://www.tuxdesk.de/Xorg.0.log">http://www.tuxdesk.de/Xorg.0.log</a> > > > > When I start X whith the -verbose option, the last thing I can see is > > always > > > > (II) RADEON(0): initializing int10 > > (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon VE/7000 QY (AGP/PCI)" (ChipID = > > 0x5159) (--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xe0000000 > > (--) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 8192 kByte (64 bit SDR SDRAM) > > (II) RADEON(0): Color tiling enabled by default > > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libddc.so > > (II) Module ddc: vendor=" X.Org Foundation" > > compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.0 > > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libi2c.so > > (II) Module i2c: vendor="X.Org Foundation" > > compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.2.0 > > (II) RADEON(0): I2C bus "DDC" initialized. > > > > and sometimes I see Messages like > > "Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0xff800000 > > end: 0xff9fffff size 0xff820000" > > > > The cards work simultaneously with the other OS, so I thought they sould > > work with xorg too. > > > > I would be happy to get some input on what to try next, which options I > > might have overlooked and what I could try to get a more meaningful > > debugging output. > > try again with the latest radeon driver on the cvs trunk or the > ati-1.0-branch, or grab teh latest binary dri snapshots: > <a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download#head-55420c59a1c2e9a70f07a6fa02f0d">http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download#head-55420c59a1c2e9a70f07a6fa02f0d</a> >228ffb87b76 Just tried the ati-1-0-branch, but it didn't help. dri is not loaded. Same problem as before. :( How can I get more verbose logging? Thx Thorsten _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list <a href="mailto:xorg@lists.freedesktop.org">xorg@lists.freedesktop.org </a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</a> </blockquote></div>