From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: 'm trying to get X working with 2 video cards - the builtin graphics (Intel 845G chipset) using the i810 driver, and a pci Nvidia GeForce4 MX 4000 using the Nvidia 6629 driver. I'm using kernel 2.6.10. When I boot the machine, the BIOS has an option to select whether the primary graphics should be AGP or PCI. When I set it to AGP, I can start X on the Intel graphics, but when I try the Nvidia, the X server crashes. When I set the primary graphics device to PCI, X will start on the Nvidia card, but I get these errors when I try to start it on the Intel: (EE) I810(0): Cannot read V_BIOS (EE) I810(0): VBE initialization failed. I've tried running both X servers separately, and together - same results. I've also tried the NoInt10 option for the i810 driver, but it still won't start. I think X is always querying the BIOS for information about the video card, and the BIOS returns info for whatever card is set as the primary, regardless of which one X is set to use. Here are the config files I'm using: X only on i810: http://home.nc.rr.com/webstorage/xorg.conf.intel X only on nvidia: http://home.nc.rr.com/webstorage/xorg.conf.nvidia.monitor X on both: http://home.nc.rr.com/webstorage/xorg.conf.multihead Here are the logs from when I try to start the X server: X on i810, bios set to AGP, works: http://home.nc.rr.com/webstorage/Xorg.0.log.i810oni810b X on i810, bios set to PCI, X won't start: http://home.nc.rr.com/webstorage/Xorg.0.log.i810onnvb X on nvidia, bios set to AGP, X crashes: http://home.nc.rr.com/webstorage/Xorg.0.log.nvoni810b X on nvidia, bios set to PCI, works: http://home.nc.rr.com/webstorage/Xorg.0.log.nvonnvb I also tried the vesa driver, but it says that it can't find a device matching the device id I put in the config file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set the BIOS to use 1 video card (agp/pci) as primary 2. Configure X for the other video card 3. Start the X server Actual Results: When BIOS is PCI, X with i810 driver fails to start. When BIOS is AGP, X on nvidia crashes, and I can't kill the crashed process. Expected Results: The server should start successfully. Additional info:
Thanks for the report. For users who are experiencing problems installing, configuring, or using the unsupported 3rd party proprietary "nvidia" video driver, Nvidia provides indirect customer support via an online web based support forum. Nvidia monitors these web forums for commonly reported problems and passes them on to Nvidia engineers for investigation. Once they've isolated a particular problem, it is often fixed in a future video driver update. The NVNews Nvidia Linux driver forum is located at: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14 Once you have reported this issue in the Nvidia web forums, others who may have experienced the particular problem may be able to assist. If there is a real bug occuring, Nvidia will be able to determine this, and will likely resolve the issue in a future driver update for the operating system releases that they officially support. While Red Hat does not support the proprietary nvidia driver, users requiring technical support may also find the various X.Org, XFree86, and Red Hat mailing lists helpful in finding assistance: X.Org mailing lists: http://www.freedesktop.org/XOrg/XorgMailingLists XFree86 mailing lists: http://www.xfree86.org/sos/lists.html Red Hat mailing lists: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo Setting status to "NOTABUG" (unsupported).
When I set the bios to use PCI as primary display, I'm not actually using any nvidia drivers. The machine boots using the kernel console driver for the nvidia card. When I try to start the X server for the builtin graphics (i810 driver), the server crashes. Please see: X only on i810: http://home.nc.rr.com/webstorage/xorg.conf.intel X on i810, bios set to PCI, X won't start: http://home.nc.rr.com/webstorage/Xorg.0.log.i810onnvb I probably shouldn't have added the part about what happens when I try to use the nvidia X drivers, but nvidia console plus i810 X server should work, right?
Please report this problem to X.Org developers via X.org bugzilla, located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component, as this is most likely a generic problem that is not distribution specific. Nvidia also has a component there for their proprietary driver. Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates.
Setting status to "NEEDINFO", and awaiting upstream bug report for tracking.
(In reply to comment #4) > Setting status to "NEEDINFO", and awaiting upstream bug report for > tracking. I have already reported this on the X.org bugzilla site, here. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2597 The bug I opened actually encompasses 2 problems - one being running the i810 driver with PCI as the primary video device, and the other being running the proprietary nvidia driver with AGP as the primary video device. I reported them together since I suspected that the underlying problem was not specific to the video card driver.
Thanks for the URL. Adding to our upstream tracker.