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pmermuys
05-16-05, 01:37 PM
Hi, I'm having a problem getting framelock to work on four Quadro FX 3000G cards. Each time I go to the nvidia-settings GUI and set the machines as server client, once I click "Enable", my screens go black, though I'm able to use my mouse to get to another terminal window, or login remotely and run init 3 and restart the XFree with init 5.

Interestingly enough, the lights on the cards still indicate that the framelock is working. The lights blink slower when in init3 mode, and then go back to their higher rate when back in runlevel 5. Not sure if it's significant, or if the cards just keep blinking just because.

I've tried turning AGP off, as other people who have had the whole "blank screen but still have mouse" have suggested this. It didn't work for me. Any ideas?

I've attached my XF86Config file and my system specs are as follows:

4 Dual core (AMD Opteron 64bit) boxes
1 IBM T221 four input monitor with 3820 x 2400 total resolution (1910x1200 for individual inputs)
Redhat Workstation (RH Linux 3.2.3-42 #1 SMP)
Linux version: 2.4.21-20

Cheers,
PM

pmermuys
05-31-05, 04:40 PM
So apparently it was a problem with the kernel patch/version I was using. I've changed to 2.4.21-27 and now framelock works fine!