[GRLUG] Video card woes

[David Pembrook]

I've got a matrox 3 head parhelia 128 AGP 8x. I purchased the card for 
gaming a while back and as the new stuff comes out it doesn't have the 
guts to handle them. There are drivers for Linux but I've never tried it 
there. Its sitting on a shelf now and I would part with it. Personally I 
wouldn't touch ATI in Linux because thats always been trouble for me.
This also might be a hair-pulling excersise but it would be one card to 
make work. You can contact me off list if your interested.

Dave

Roberto Villarreal wrote:

>What should have started out as a simple hardware swap has turned into a 
>full day of hair-pulling.
>
>My problem is that I want three monitors using xinerama.  I have five 
>heads to choose from; I'm not partial.
>
>This was working using the onboard ATI, one head from the nVidia, and an 
>old Matrox card... but it was so wimpy, I couldn't run the monitor to 
>it's full resolution, so I bought the new ATI.
>
>The only way I've gotten this to work is with the onboard ATI and both 
>heads on the nVidia... but it is SLOW.  Even just switching tabs in a 
>browser pegs the CPU at 100% for a good three seconds.  I tried this 
>setup without the ATI with the same results.  This is using the latest 
>binary drivers for both with TwinView disabled on the nVidia.  If 
>someone has insight into why the nVidia setup is so slow, I can use that 
>setup.
>
>Any combination of the onboard ATI with the PCI ATI screws up the 
>system:  50% it hangs the system, 50% I can kill X via ssh but lose the 
>ability to do anything from a terminal.  The onboard *can* use the stock 
>(radeon) or binary (fglrx), but only the binary will run my monitor 
>correctly.  The PCI can only use the stock.  The hangs are independent 
>of whether just one or both heads are in use.
>
>Some minimal info is below; I can provide any configs and/or logs if 
>it'll be of any help.  TIA!
>
>Roberto
>
>(On that note, if anybody has an old PCI Matrox card (>4MB) they want to 
>sell, holler...)
>
>
>
>
>System:
>Linux fubar 2.6.14 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 20 01:03:40 EST 2005 i686 
>GNU/Linux
>
>xorg: 6.8.2
>
>libc6: 2.3.5
>
>gcc: 4.0.3
>
>ATI binary installer: ati-driver-installer-8.20.8-i386.run
>
>nVidia binary installer: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run
>
>Video cards:
>0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 
>[Radeon Xpress 200G Series] (onboard)
>0000:02:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 
>RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] (dual-head PCI)
>0000:02:02.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 
>[GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1) (dual-head PCI)
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>grlug mailing list
>grlug at grandrapids-lug.org
>http://grlug.org/mailman/listinfo/grlug
>  
>