Re: [Xpert]Super Micro MB and XF86 problem

["Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>]

On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 01:08, Daniel Sheltraw wrote: 
> Hello Xpert list
> 
> I have been pulling my hair out over a problem I have been having
> with a Super Micro P6SBA motherboard with a 440BX chipset. I was
> wondering if anyone else is having any problems with this board
> or chipset. I have sent a few emails to Super Micro but so far
> they have not given me a solution to this problem.
> 
> The problem arises in the following situation although it may
> arise in others. We have a custom application that uses two
> video cards. The AGP (ATI Radeon 7500) card is driven by our custom
> kernel module while the PCI card (ATI Xpert 98) is driven by X. 
> We have three machines on which our application is running just fine.
> All three motherboards are from different manufactures. On a fourth
> motherboard, the Super Micro P6SBA, we are having a problem. When
> we try to startx this machine gives the error \"no screens found\".
> This is a common error in XFree86 but the important point is that
> all of the cards are using identical XF86config-4 files except
> for the option BusID which we set according to the device number
> found in /proc/pci or by using lspci.
> 
> So we have identical graphics cards, identical versions of XFree86
> (4.2), identical (except for BusID in device section) XF86config
> files on all machines, and even identical monitors but the Super Micro
> machine is not working as expected. We can find no differences in the
> BIOS that we think would be causing this problem and we have 
> experimented with many different settings.
> 
> The /proc/pci system does detect both graphics cards on the Super Micro
> machine and if we set up the XF86 config to use just one the two
> graphics cards we find that they both function. Therefore it
> does not appear to be a problem with the graphics cards.
> 
> Any ideas what could be going on here?

Please put up XF86Config files and logs somewhere. Maybe more eyes can
spot something you're missing.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast