[GRLUG] Video card woes

[Roberto Villarreal]

Wow, that sounds like a beautiful card... but unfortunately, AGP won't 
work for me.  It's a new box and only has a PCIE and a couple PCI slots. 
  I had a dual-head Matrox AGP that worked like a charm in my old box.

Thanks anyway though!

Roberto

David Pembrook wrote:
> 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
>> 
>>
> 
> _______________________________________________
> grlug mailing list
> grlug at grandrapids-lug.org
> http://grlug.org/mailman/listinfo/grlug
> 
>