Video cards with Opensuse 11.2

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Hi,

I´m observing that several people are having problems with some video cards on the last version of opensuse. My case is the same. I have a system with two cards. (see below)

sax2 -p
Chip: 0 is -> NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 01:11:0 0x10de 0x0185 AGP nvidia
Chip: 1 is -> ATI Radeon X300 (RV370) 5B60 (PCIE) 04:00:0 0x1002 0x5b60 AGP radeon

There are two AOC LCD monitors connected to each card.

When I run sax2 -r to configure xorg, only the Radeon card is recognized and there is no “Display 2” info when checking sax2.

When I modify xorg.conf by hand, I could insert the second card and monitor and also can see “Display 2” info, but the second monitor is not working.

I have done several actions to solve that, but no solution.

The most strange part is that this was working perfectly with Opensuse 10.X.

Can some give me a light for the issue?

Thanks in advance.

Marcelo

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Welcome to the forums !!!

Do you still have the xorg.conf from 10.x which did work? If so, try that.

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I have tried that. Unfortunatelly does not work.
Marcelo

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Sax2 has more options than just “-r”.

I recall reading of one user on our forum, who with different hardware, was successful in doing what you are attempting …

They ended up having to study

man sax2

to come up with the appropriate sax settings

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On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 14:26 +0000, lmachite wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I´m observing that several people are having problems with some video
> cards on the last version of opensuse. My case is the same. I have a
> system with two cards. (see below)
>
> sax2 -p
> Chip: 0 is -> NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 01:11:0 0x10de 0x0185 AGP
> nvidia
> Chip: 1 is -> ATI Radeon X300 (RV370) 5B60 (PCIE) 04:00:0 0x1002
> 0x5b60 AGP radeon
>
> There are two AOC LCD monitors connected to each card.
>
> When I run sax2 -r to configure xorg, only the Radeon card is
> recognized and there is no “Display 2” info when checking sax2.

sax2 -m0=nvidia

For example to configure card 0 to use nv driver.

That might be helpful? Thus -m1=radeon for the second one.

I’m just guessing at this one.

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That’s no guess, that’s what it should be. I remember now.

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On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 19:56 +0000, Knurpht wrote:
> That’s no guess, that’s what it should be. I remember now.
>
>

Yes… but I’ve never had to do this for disparate video cards… so I
couldn’t say for sure if it would work or not.