cardassianscot Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 I've recently upgraded my second graphics card (primary graphics card a GeForce 4 MX) from a Matrox Millenium to a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI to get dual monitors working properly in Windows XP. However, I can't get the Voodoo card working in 10.0 OE or SuSe 9.1. Interestingly enough I did get it to work in Mandrake Move 2 test edition although the refresh rate and alignment were wrong, so the screen looked a bit off. (Yes, I tried copying XF86Config-4 file from MM to the OE, but no joy). Any suggestions? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 The hardware works fine under Mandrake and should be fully supported with direct rendering with an out-of-the-box Mandrake installation. The problem here (as you would have guessed, I'm sure) is getting it to work alongside your new nvidia card. It shouldn't be too tricky, lets start by getting you to paste you XF86Config-4 file here. We just need to setup the two devices properly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardassianscot Posted July 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 OK, I've got it partially working now, I'll include my XFConfig-4 file below. However, I get a lot of red lines down the screen and when I move the mouse around or open windows I get lots of dots and lines appearing (on the voodoo card). Also whenever I switch to terminal mode and back again (Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then Ctrl-Alt-F7) only my nvidia card is working. I have tried doing without the NoAccel and SWCursor options and its worse. Here's the file # File generated by XFdrake. # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** Section "Files" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort) #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching) 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 Load "dri" # direct rendering EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "Keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" Option "XkbOptions" "" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Generic" ModelName "1024x768 @ 60 Hz" HorizSync 31.5-48.5 VertRefresh 50-70 # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor2" # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "3Dfx Interactive, Inc." BoardName "Voodoo3 (generic)" Driver "tdfx" Screen 0 BusID "PCI:1:7:0" Option "DPMS" Option "NoAccel" "on" Option "SWCursor" "on" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device2" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)" Driver "nv" Screen 0 BusID "PCI:2:0:0" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen2" Device "device2" Monitor "monitor2" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" Screen "screen2" Screen "screen1" RightOf "screen2" #Option "Xinerama" EndSection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardassianscot Posted July 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2004 UPDATE: I'm still having problems in Linux and have never got it working, but I also occasionally have problems in Windows XP. In the windows case, a couple of reboots or occasionally removing the card, booting windows, shutting down, reinserting the card, booting windows fixes the problem (this is a pain). However, I still can't get it working in Linux. The problem is that there appears to be a persistent image that remains in the cards memory so just hitting the off button and then rebooting means that a distorted image of the last image appears on the voodoo monitor. I have to turn the computer off at the mains to get rid of this and even then it results in a random image (like an untuned analogue TV picture but static not moving). I've haven't been able to track down a reason for this behaviour in Windows XP, but I'm open to suggestions (it doesn't appear to be linked to using the 3D acceleration of either card). Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardassianscot Posted July 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 Problem solved (sort of). I figured the card was faulty and replaced it with a Geforce 2 MX PCI card. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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