Re: nouveau prob with 2nd card
On 2010-06-30 15:36 +0200, Kent West wrote:
> I updated to Sid a few weeks ago to get newer printer drivers so I
> could print, and lost my dual-monitor setup in the process.
>
> I've tried a handful of different video cards that I've been able to
> get hold of (none of them dual-head), and simply can not recover my
> dual-monitor setup.
>
> Most recently I've gotten two identical video cards:
>
> 04:06.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4
> MX 4000] (rev c1)
> 04:07.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4
> MX 4000] (rev c1)
>
> and in researching possible fixes, found the following in the output
> of "dmesg | grep nouveau". My question: Is this the way it should
> look, or are the 101 instances of PFIFO being angry and failure to
> allocate a framebuffer a problem?
I think this is a problem.
> If it's not a problem, why can't I get my dual-monitor setup back?
According to http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix there is
no multicard support for GeForce4 (yet).
Sven
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