Re: Dual head and 2 grapic cards results in total hangup

dwyfrtl@hotmail.com adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie and donned
asbestos
underwear to post:

> After countless installations and troubleshooting (which led to
nearly
> nothing) maybe someone has a clue how to install 2 graphics cards
> (with one of the a dual head).
>
> This is the PC I'm trying to install to (M$ WIndoze runs perfectly):

>
> P4 2.8 Ghz.
> 1 Gb RAM
> Asus 8640 (Nvidia 4600) dual head with IIyama Vision Master pro 512
+
> Sony Multiscan 400PS
> Matrox Millenium with Sony 15" LCD
> 3 x 80 GB
> and some other stuff...
>
> Wierdest thing is that Yast sees everything (dual graphics card)
even
> the dual head but misses out the second monitor on the Nvidia 4600
> card. System installs fine, after installing reboot and hangs (black

> screen) upon loading X.....
>
> Help?

You might have to setup the second monitor yourself using sax, also
did
you grab the Nvidias during setup from the online update?

To try and setup the graphics again you just need to boot to the
commandline as root and run sax, at the first grub boot screen, the
one
with the countdown indicator type "init 3" without the quotes and when

it gets to the login prompt do the following:

login as root and enter the root password then type:

sax -l -r

That is a lower case "L" after the sax command, this will
re-initialise
the graphic hardware database and start with a new lowres setting of
640x480, now try and configure again, when it comes to the dual head
portion it might only see the nvidia card as one output, what you neeto do is just go ahead and add another card the same as the nvidia and

configure the second monitor on that one, you may have to edit in your

own frequency settings for the second monitor on the Nvidia but just
set them to what the manufacturer recommends.

HTH

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