On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 07:55 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > On 8/1/07, michael <cs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 15:26 +0100, Ian Malone 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. > > > > > > 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. > > > > I'm pretty sure it will take an ext graphics card. It is indeed for > > dual-head that I wish to use this card (I've used it and 'nv' (under > > Debian) in the past. > > > > Runlevel 3 hangs... does some ACPI, does some agpgart then hangs. Can't > > see an obvious error message > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > yes, it's before we get to X. I'm wondering if its a detection of SATA and PCI issue... > > > > anybody out there got this mobo and used PCI okay or had to do workaround? > > Have you verified that you're using the latest motherboard BIOS? > I've just flashed the latest mobo BIOS and still the same problems... > The system boots fine with the onboard video, but not with the > nVidia card added, right? > that's correct > Will the system boot Linux from one of the > live CDs, or any other OS with the nVidia card installed? > it will boot from certain other *installation* CDs... I'll try a live CD tomorrow... > Even > though it should not happen, it could be the card is not compatible > with the motherboard. (Or you may need a BIOS update...) Remember, > there are more then one AGV "standard". (Different speeds, 1.5V and > 3.3V cards, etc...) >
