-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I want to rephrase your description, just to make sure I understand your issue correctly. On your PII machine you have a nVidia graphics card with dual-head, connected to two monitors; configured using Xinerama. One of the monitors was set to display a local X screen, and the other was set to display an X screen exported from your PIV machine. After switching from the xfree86 nv driver to nVidia's propriatary nvidia driver, you are able to start X on one display, but trying to start on the second fails.
Assuming I understood your problem correctly, this is probably caused by some issue's the nvidia driver has with Xinerama. The nvidia driver provides what it calls 'TwinView', where multiple monitors are treated as a single X screen; so as far as the actual X server is concerned, it is the same as having one monitor. Where you wanted the two monitors to use seperate X screens, one local and one remote, you actually don't want to use TwinView. My best guess for why you are having this problem is because the nvidia driver's TwinView sometimes conflicts with some Xinerama configurations. I think you should be able to edit your XF86Config file so that everything works with the nvidia driver, but it might be easier to just use the nv driver (unless you need OpenGL or other hardware acceleration). If you do want to try to thrash out a working configuration w/ the nvidia drivers, try reading through the README included with the nvidia driver (available online at: <ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-5336/README>), especially Appendix R (app-r). Another place you might find some answers is at nVidia's Linux Driver Forums; either in some previous post or by starting a new thread for your particual issue. The nVidia forum is at: <http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14>. HTH, Conway S. Smith Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote: > PII 266 Mandrake-9.2. Icewm 1.2.13pre3. XDM. XFree86 4.3. > This machine also has (or rather, HAD) an X display exported from: > PIV 1.8 G Mandrake-9.2. GDM. XFree86 4.3. (Started from inittab). > The PII has a dual monitor display using Xinerama. Both video cards used > the nv driver. Since installing nvidia drivers, only the remote display > from the PIV starts. Commenting out the line in inittab allows the local > display to start, after which trying to start the remote display from > the command line fails. In both cases, the error message in > XFree86.0.log or XFree86.1.log is: > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate external video decoder object > (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** > > Fatal server error: > AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 > > Any ideas anyone? > TIA > Andrew > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAc305GL3AU+cCPDERAuYFAJ494veCh5wB9k4agyDfeIjWt/TptACeINhR Ml7djz1YNLA09liOGqyUtnw= =5VXB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
