Quadro 750XGL, NVIDIA Drivers, Twin-view, and more

[Guest FrustratedNube]

hello

I am as my name says a frustrated nube...

after 30 hours of struggling I finally got the NVIDIA drivers installed...

after the basic config of the XF86config-4 I noticed my 1st problem..

 

If I start up Linux and it auto-boots into X (which I have disabled at this point), I can watch all the command line stuff up untill X is started. After that, trying to switch to the full screen console gives me a completely black screen, Im talking NO DISPLAY. Monitor led stays green in agpgart, under the NvidaAGP it turns amber. The machine does not lock up however, I can switch back to X using the keyboard. Samething once I log out, black screen. I can blind type and enter commands to my hearts delight and they work, but no visual...

 

After that I tried to configure my Twin-View.

I have a Quadro 750 XGL video card, it has 1 VGA out and 1 DV-I out,(other than that it has some stupid stereo glasses out instead of S-video). I am using 2 CRT monitors, an 18" viewable and a 16" viewable. The Primary display (18") is hooked to the DV-I port through an adapter, the 2nd dispay is hooked to the VGA. Linux has never dispayed on the 2nd monitor. The set-up works in windows, both monitors work, I've even swapped them but it just seems that linux will not send video to the VGA out of the card while the DV-I port is in use... the 2nd monitor never comes out of sleep and if I power it up it just stays grey, I can't even adjust the monitors OSD controls for Brightness etc. while this is happening.

 

This is my XF86config-4, My log is attached

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Section "Files"

FontPath "unix/:-1"

EndSection

 

Section "ServerFlags"

AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work

EndSection

 

Section "Module"

Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension

Load "v4l" # Video for Linux

Load "extmod"

Load "type1"

Load "freetype"

Load "glx" # 3D layer

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard1"

Driver "Keyboard"

Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30"

Option "XkbModel" "pc105"

Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"

EndSection

 

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "monitor1"

VendorName "Gateway"

ModelName "Gateway EV900"

HorizSync 30.0-95.0

VertRefresh 50.0-200.0

EndSection

 

Section "Device"

Identifier "NV AGP TwinView"

VendorName "NVidia"

BoardName "Quadro4 700 XGL"

Driver "nvidia"

Option "NoLogo" "1"

Option "RenderAccel" "1"

Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "DFP, TV"

Option "Overlay" "1"

Option "CIOverlay" "1"

Option "UseEdidFreqs" "1"

Option "NvAGP" "3"

Option "DPMS"

Option "TwinView" "1"

Option "TwinViewOrientation" "above"

Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-70"

Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50-160"

Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT, CRT"

Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024; 1024x768,1024x768; 1280x1024,NULL"

BusID "PCI:1:0:0"

EndSection

 

Section "Screen"

Identifier "screen1"

Device "NV AGP TwinView"

Monitor "monitor1"

DefaultColorDepth 24

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 24

Modes "1280x2048"

EndSubsection

EndSection

 

Section "ServerLayout"

Option "Xinerama" "1"

Identifier "layout1"

InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

Screen "screen1" 0 0

EndSection

 

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If any one can please let me know how to solve these problems either of them, please help...

So far Linux has be less than co-operative OS...

Edited June 26, 2004 by FrustratedNube