second Graphic Display

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Hallo,
i am an Linux Beginner and i just installed Suse Linux 11.0 on my 800 Mhz Pentium III and it works fine so far. But, now i installed in addition to the on board Graphic Hardware an AGP Graphic Card. Now the System is working fine with this card, and i tried to “activate” the on board card to work with two Monitors. But i did not find the second Card in sax2.
@linux-kqmw:~> /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801AA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA USB Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801AA SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA AC’97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200 AGP (rev 03)
02:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74)

@linux-kqmw:~> /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801AA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA USB Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801AA SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA AC’97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200 AGP (rev 03)
02:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74)

Thanks fore Help!!

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Impossible??:frowning:

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Unlikely. What is more likely is those who have succeeded in doing such a configuration do not bother to visit our volunteer forum.

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Hi
You just need to run the sax2 command telling the application you have
two graphics cards eg;

If you press ctrl+alt+F1 you should get to a console login, login as
your normal user, then;


su -
init 3
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa 1=vesa
init 5 && exit
ctrl+alt+F1
exit
ctrl+alt+F7

That should get you a GUI running with two graphics cards… the
ctrl+alt+F7 gets you back to the GUI (X session).

Note: I have used vesa in the example, you need to replace with
whatever video drivers you are using.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 0:45, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.05, 0.08
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12

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Hi malcomlewis,

when i type sax2 -r -m 0=vesa 1 =vesa

sax2 opens but just with one Monitor. Somehow it ignores the second card. Could it be possible, that my Motherboard is kind of switching the on board card of, as soon there is an AGB Card plugged in?

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Hi
Does the system see both cards? Either from dmesg output or hwinfo eg


sudo zypper in hwinfo
/usr/sbin/hwinfo --gfxcard

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 11:25, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.09, 0.08
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12

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it does not look so:

/usr/sbin/hwinfo --gfxcard

10: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[Created at pci.310]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_102b_521
Unique ID: VCu0.klIydjBTe15
Parent ID: vSkL.UFGjxxbnmrA
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
Hardware Class: graphics card
Model: “Matrox Millennium G200 SD AGP”
Vendor: pci 0x102b “Matrox Graphics, Inc.”
Device: pci 0x0521 “MGA G200 AGP”
SubVendor: pci 0x102b “Matrox Graphics, Inc.”
SubDevice: pci 0x48f8 “Millennium G200 SD AGP”
Revision: 0x03
Memory Range: 0xf5000000-0xf5ffffff (rw,prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xf4800000-0xf4803fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xf4000000-0xf47fffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xf4810000-0xf481ffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled)
IRQ: 11 (no events)
I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
Module Alias: “pci:v0000102Bd00000521sv0000102Bsd000048F8bc03sc00i00”
Driver Info #0:
XFree86 v4 Server Module: mga
Color Depths: 8, 16, 24
Extensions:
Options: NoHal
XF86Config Entry: VideoRam 8192
Driver Info #1:
XFree86 v4 Server Module: mga
3D Support: yes
Color Depths: 16
Extensions: dri
Options: NoHal
XF86Config Entry: VideoRam 8192
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #17 (PCI bridge)

Primary display adapter: #10