Problem on using NVidia for 1AGP+1PCI cards to emulate 2 terminals.

[whyza]

i have tried the suggested workaround provided by Victor but it does not work for me.......

the probe is sucessful, but when i load the nvidia driver the pci card is still not detected and a cat /dev/nvidia0 still produces an io error.

if i try and use the nv driver for both pci and agp cards, interestingly the pci card output is non existant and X is running at 100% cpu for the pci server.

so its all very broken.

any ideas nvidia ?

i was hoping to buy another 2 nvidia cards for this pc, and another 8 cards for another 2 pc's i am yet to build....but i obviously would be silly to purchase 10 more pci cards with the results so far.

[whyza]

Further investigations reveal that the nvidia driver will not initialise the card that is not the primary vga device as defined in the bios.

eg... agp card is primary vga device as defined in the bios, pci card will not initialise

or

pci card is primary vga device as defined in the bios, agp card will not initialise

please help nvidia !

[netllama]

Victor,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this issue. I've spent some time looking at this today. I setup an HP xw8000 workstation with put 1 GeForce4 MX 440 AGP and 2 GeForce4 MX 4000 PCI cards, for a total of 3 cards, running RHEL3-U5 (x86) with the 1.0-7676 nvidia driver.

I then took your XF86Config from your bug report in the post dated "08-05-05, 05:49 PM", and simply ran 'startx', and had 1 X screen successfully running off of each card, for a total of 3 fully functional X screens (running Gnome, if that matters).

You didn't comment what kind of motherboard you were using, however at this stage, I'd guess that is playing a large role in the problems you're experiencing, particularly with these errors:
NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x21:0xffffffff:686)
NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed

I've attached a bug report from the system where I've set all of this up for you to review.

Please let me know if I've misunderstood any particulars of your setup.

Thanks,
Lonni