On 8/1/07, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/08/07, Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 8/1/07, michael <cs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Folks, I'm new to Fedora so please excuse anything I'm ignorant about! > > > Having said that, I've been Googling about and trying different things > > > for a couple of days so I think it's now time to ask the experts (you!). > > > > > > I've got a new box, it's got a intel DQ965GF mobo, with 2 SATA disks > > > (LVM) and came with Fedora 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 running on it. I wanted to > > > put my old nVidia geForce fx 5200 (PCI card) into it to allow me to use > > > both my TFTs. However, when I do this it gets to the GRUB menu, starts > > > to load a kernel (is that the right phrase) and then falls over. If I > > > leave the card in but tell the BIOS to use the internal graphics it > > > boots okay. But when return BIOS to auto detect or explicitly use the > > > nVidia card it falls over during boot. I've tried appending > > > acpi=off > > > pci=nommconf > > > at the end of the GRUB boot command but with no success. Generally the > > > failure messages say (at about the time there's agpgart messages): > > > general protection fault 0000[1] SMP > > > > > > I'm at a loss as to why it's not working! > > > > Most likely the motherboard was never meant to boot with an external > > graphics card. > > > > While I can't suggest what might be wrong (maybe see > if it's possible to boot to runlevel 3: add the single digit '3' at > the end of the kernel line), it sounds like the motherboard is > happily starting up with the graphics card, and if the BIOS > has an option to not use an add-on card then it it's natural > to think the flip side is to use one. Sounds like a driver issue. But which driver? From the initial description it sounds like things are going south well before X even starts up, and a graphics card this old has worked fine under vesa, nv & nvidia X drivers for ages now. > > The OP doesn't have two displays plugged in by any chance? > (And by that I mean two cables, even if they go to the same > monitor.) The nv driver doesn't like doing dual-head. True, but that certainly wouldn't cause an OS crash. And just because there are two display devices plugged in doesn't mean that they would get used automatically unless X was configured that way.
