multi head failsafe

[Yan Seiner]

Carl Karsten wrote:
> Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
>   
>>
>>     If it locks or doesn't run at that point, you're probably running 
>> into this bug:
>>
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18160
>>
>>     (I noticed your log finishes with "initializing int10", which is 
>> what mine finished with when I ran into this bug).
>>
>>     The cause is that, at a certain point, Xorg got rid of its inbuilt 
>> PCI handling code, and has been relying on the kernel PCI code.  
>> Unfortunately, there's been a bug in the Xorg code, and a bug in the 
>> kernel as well.  Either Alex Villacis-Lasso (excuse lack of diacritics) 
>> will fix it, or my book on PCI architecture will arrive, and I'll give 
>> it a go myself (but it may be beyond me).
>>
>>     The workaround is to downgrade to an older version of Xorg.  I 
>> forget what version worked, but IIRC, it worked in Fedora 8, but not 
>> Fedora 9 (I went straight from Fedora 6 to Fedora 10 myself, so I'm 
>> unsure).
>>
>>     HTH some.
>>
>>     
>
> This helps alot - I know to stop messing with my config and start downgradeing. 
> thankyou very much.
>   
There is a 'noInt10" option in the nvidia binary blob driver that might 
help.  IIRC you only need it for the primary card.

--Yan