Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264851AbTE1T6K (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 15:58:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264852AbTE1T6K (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 15:58:10 -0400 Received: from 4.54.252.64.snet.net ([64.252.54.4]:62352 "EHLO jaymale.blue-labs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264851AbTE1T6I (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 15:58:08 -0400 Message-ID: <3ED517E2.2010702@blue-labs.org> Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 16:11:14 -0400 From: David Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030527 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones CC: Jakob Kemi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.70 damaged my nvidia card? References: <3ED4B42D.4040204@telia.com> <20030528132153.GA27632@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20030528132153.GA27632@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1660 Lines: 45 I have an ATI card that went nuts a couple years ago, ~4 months old, fizzled on boot. Doesn't work in text mode at all, works fine in graphics mode however. I have an old ISA card stuck in the machine so the machine will boot. The motherboard doesn't recognize the AGP card without another video card installed. This is the only motherboard that I can get it to work on. The card simply doesn't work at all on any other m/board. Good thing I run Linux, I don't think I'd have this option under winblows ;) David Dave Jones wrote: >On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 03:05:49PM +0200, Jakob Kemi wrote: > > > When I run the box with an old PCI card as my primary adapter and the > > AGP geforce card as secondary the Geforce card doesnt seem to run it's > > VGA BIOS (no boot message). > >most (if not all) modern BIOS's have an "Init {AGP/PCI} display first" >option. You may need to fiddle with that. > > > X also refuses to detect the Geforce card. > > Is it possible that the new console layer or the new agp gart code or > > whatever in 2.5.70 poked in the wrong registers and replaced the BIOS > > flash rom on the GeForce with garbage? > >Extremely unlikely. WRT agpgart, it pokes chipset registers, not >graphic card registers. > >It may even be that the two cards you have won't play together. >Try them both _independantly_ before jumping to conclusions about >wiped BIOSes etc. > > Dave > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/