Second video card not detected?

Paul F. Almquist paul at almquist.name
Sun Feb 6 06:28:45 UTC 2005


On Sunday 06 February 2005 00:06, Brian Parish wrote:
> On Sunday 06 February 2005 15:59, Paul F. Almquist wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 February 2005 21:27, Brian Parish wrote:
> > > Just loaded Core 3 and all seems fairly smooth except for setting up
> > > dual monitors.  I have an PCI and a AGP card installed, but it looks
> > > very much like the AGP card is not being detected.
> > >
> > > Tried booting a live CD and it found both cards, but
> > > system-config-display sees only one card.  Tried manually setting up
> > > xorg.conf using the bus ID detected using the live CD, but of course
> > > this is ignored because the card doesn't exist as far as the current
> > > system is concerned.
> > >
> > > Is there a utility I can use to scan the bus and attempt to force
> > > recognition of the second card?  Any suggestions welcome.
> > >
> > > TIA
> > > Brian
> >
> > for starters try lspci  as root and see if both cards are reported.
> >
> > i use dualhead on FC3 but have a matrox g400 dualhead agp card.
>
> Thanks Paul,
>
> lspci only finds one card.  The question is, how to force detection of the
> other one?
>
> thanks and regards
> Brian
i wonder if that might be affected by a BIOS setting?  that may be worth 
exploring.

-- 
Paul F. Almquist
paul at almquist.name
Eau Claire, WI  USA




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