F12 Geforce FX 5200 dual head

niqdanger · #1 28th December 2009, 09:47 PM

I am having an issue getting this setup to work. The really annoying part of this story is that the week before Christmas I had it working, perfectly, in another location. I packed it up, moved it, tried to mess with a KVM and thats when it all went downhill. No worries, I can just reload. Only that didn't work either. So here I am, clean load as of this afternoon, with only 1 working monitor at a horrible resolution (640x480@50hz)

Machine: Dell Dimension 2400, PCI nVidia dual port FX 5200. Dual Nokia 447Za CRTs. Fedora 12 loaded today from Live CD.

I would really like this setup to work, and Id blame the Dell hardware if I didn't know this was working already in the past.

lspci

Code:

[root@oldnick ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
00:02.0 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
01:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U (rev 01)
01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
01:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)

xorg.conf

Code:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (mockbuild@)  Sun Nov 22 21:05:17 EST 2009

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Modes      "nvidia-auto-select"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

grub.conf

Code:

[root@oldnick ~]# more /etc/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_oldnick-lv_root rdblacklist=nouveau
#          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_oldnick-lv_root noiswmd LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBO
ARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet rdblacklist=nouveau
        initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_oldnick-lv_root noiswmd LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBO
ARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet rdblacklist=nouveau
        initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.img
[root@oldnick ~]#

After I had this working, I moved it from my test desk to my primary desk. This also houses my XP box so the plan was to use the KVM. I didn't know about the monitor detection issue through the KVM and after I did this, the 2nd monitor (in the kvm) never came on. I messed with xrandr a bit, and decided to remove the KVM completely. 2nd monitor still didn't work. I assumed something got wonked and saved with my messing about, so I reloaded it from scratch. I followed the guide on here for adding the nvidia 173xx drivers to F12, and that is all that is all that I've done.

What is failing? Note there is no KVM on there anymore, just the desktop, and two monitors. The built in Intel card has nothing connected.

Nick