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9/24/06 at 1:58pm

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So um.....here is the story.

My desktop originally came with a shared Intel i810 chip, which is well, craptastic so due the the lack of AGP ports I stuck a PCI fx5700le in there which is a much better card. So um, yeah, I can proudly say i have 2 vidieo cards in my desktop.....but far from sli

anyway... In the BIOS there is only 1 setting regarding the video card and it lets me pick between "Onboard" (intel) and "PCI" (nvidia).

When I have PCI selected:
the live cd pops in and gives me the menu, i pick "boot or install" and then there it goes until it tries to load Xorg, at which point it gives me a blank screen and does not respond to Alt+Ctrl+Backspace or anything else for that matter. (I later tried booting pclinuxos bigdaddy and booting debian etch and they both died similar deaths, so its not an ubuntu-exclusive issue).

When I have "Onboard":
it boots and works as if nothing ever happened. But now i am lacking 3D support....ghay! But at least now i can go ahead and fiddle with my xorg.conf then reboot changing bios to "PCI" and keeping fingers crossed that it works.

so far I have tried changing the modules from "i810" to "nv" and "vesa" neither of which yielded any luck. I believe it has something to do with the device though because if i try to load vesa it gives me a "device not found" and something in regards to that line where you pick "0:1:0" or something along hte lines of that.

anyway.....for right now i am using the onboard card, but I would like to have my nvidia back.... can i get some help with my xorg.conf?

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9/24/06 at 7:02pm

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Ok ABF you know the drill, Post up lspci -v and xorg.conf

I strongly suspect you are addressing the wrong PCI address with your driver in xorg.conf.

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9/24/06 at 9:00pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by seablade

Ok ABF you know the drill, Post up lspci -v and xorg.conf

I strongly suspect you are addressing the wrong PCI address with your driver in xorg.conf.

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yeah thats what i am thinking.....haha, actually for right now i am trying to figure out PC-BSD.....hell....if it works it works, i just needed to get rid of my badly crippled Arch setup.

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9/25/06 at 7:27pm

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ok well, pc-bsd is although workable is really turning out to be more difficult than ubuntu so i went back to ubuntu. the good news is that out of the box (using the i810) everything works fine and dandy, even my digital camera, printer, and scanner work out of the box. perfect! but the video issue still remains, anyway, here is some info so you can help me resolve the situation. i wanna get the nvidia card working on at least the vesa or nv drivers first and then i will continue with teh installation of the 3d drivers. output for lspci -v:

Code:

0000:01:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV36 [GeForce FX 5700LE] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
        Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=16M]
        Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128M]
        Expansion ROM at e4400000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

current Xorg.conf:

Code:

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Files"
\tFontPath\t"/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
\tFontPath\t"/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
\tFontPath\t"/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
\tFontPath\t"/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
\tFontPath\t"/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
\tFontPath\t"/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
\tFontPath\t"/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
\t# path to defoma fonts
\tFontPath\t"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
\tLoad\t"i2c"
\tLoad\t"bitmap"
\tLoad\t"ddc"
\tLoad\t"dri"
\tLoad\t"extmod"
\tLoad\t"freetype"
\tLoad\t"glx"
\tLoad\t"int10"
\tLoad\t"type1"
\tLoad\t"vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
\tIdentifier\t"Generic Keyboard"
\tDriver\t\t"kbd"
\tOption\t\t"CoreKeyboard"
\tOption\t\t"XkbRules"\t"xorg"
\tOption\t\t"XkbModel"\t"pc104"
\tOption\t\t"XkbLayout"\t"us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
\tIdentifier\t"Configured Mouse"
\tDriver\t\t"mouse"
\tOption\t\t"CorePointer"
\tOption\t\t"Device"\t\t"/dev/input/mice"
\tOption\t\t"Protocol"\t\t"ExplorerPS/2"
\tOption\t\t"ZAxisMapping"\t\t"4 5"
\tOption\t\t"Emulate3Buttons"\t"true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "stylus"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to 
                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
  Option        "Type"          "stylus"
  Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "eraser"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to 
                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
  Option        "Type"          "eraser"
  Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "cursor"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to 
                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
  Option        "Type"          "cursor"
  Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Device"
\tIdentifier\t"Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]"
\tDriver\t\t"i810"
\tBusID\t\t"PCI:0:1:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
\tIdentifier\t"DELL M781s"
\tOption\t\t"DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
\tIdentifier\t"Default Screen"
\tDevice\t\t"Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]"
\tMonitor\t\t"DELL M781s"
\tDefaultDepth\t24
\tSubSection "Display"
\t\tDepth\t\t1
\t\tModes\t\t"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
\tEndSubSection
\tSubSection "Display"
\t\tDepth\t\t4
\t\tModes\t\t"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
\tEndSubSection
\tSubSection "Display"
\t\tDepth\t\t8
\t\tModes\t\t"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
\tEndSubSection
\tSubSection "Display"
\t\tDepth\t\t15
\t\tModes\t\t"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
\tEndSubSection
\tSubSection "Display"
\t\tDepth\t\t16
\t\tModes\t\t"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
\tEndSubSection
\tSubSection "Display"
\t\tDepth\t\t24
\t\tModes\t\t"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
\tEndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
\tIdentifier\t"Default Layout"
\tScreen\t\t"Default Screen"
\tInputDevice\t"Generic Keyboard"
\tInputDevice\t"Configured Mouse"
\tInputDevice     "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
\tInputDevice     "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
\tInputDevice     "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
\tMode\t0666
EndSection

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9/25/06 at 7:53pm

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Yep, take note of certain things in the output of that lspci...

Code:

Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=16M]
        Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128M]
        Expansion ROM at e4400000 [disabled] [size=128K]

Those disabled tags to be more specific. Go ahead and get the nvidia drivers installed and modprobed and see if that helps with those. Post back with results of course. Seablade

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9/25/06 at 7:54pm

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Of course I am sure you are aware, you don't have the nvidia set up in that xorg.conf at all anyways

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9/25/06 at 8:08pm

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yeah i know. there is no point in me setting up the nvidia at that point because the bios is set on the i810 so that i could install/boot in the first place, and the monitor is plugged into the i810 too.

here is the game plan:
1. use Automatix to install "nvidia drivers" package
2. reboot, change bios to PCI and plug in the monitor into the nvdia card
3. report back with details.

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9/25/06 at 8:18pm

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what do you know. Automatix saves the day once again

i still kinda hate the fact that ubuntu failed to detect my nvidia card in livecd mode / out of the box and required some if this hax0rin' if you will to get it to work, but now its perfect... a complete working desktop system ready to go in 2 hours time (including all the media codecs and other programs installed)

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9/26/06 at 3:58am

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Heh if you card isnt active from BIOS it can't be detected very well

While possible, I would imagine it makes it much more difficult at least.

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9/26/06 at 7:42pm

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i mean as when i set the bios to PCI and boot it up, i get a black screen when xorg tries to load up....because regardless of if i have the bios set to PCI or Onboard, ubuntu will always setup for the i810

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9/26/06 at 9:04pm

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Ahh ok makes sense.

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