Second video card not detected?

Brian Parish brian at univexsystems.com
Sun Feb 6 06:06:22 UTC 2005


On Sunday 06 February 2005 15:59, Paul F. Almquist wrote:
> On Saturday 05 February 2005 21:27, Brian Parish wrote:
> > Just loaded Core 3 and all seems fairly smooth except for setting up dual
> > monitors.  I have an PCI and a AGP card installed, but it looks very much
> > like the AGP card is not being detected.
> >
> > Tried booting a live CD and it found both cards, but
> > system-config-display sees only one card.  Tried manually setting up
> > xorg.conf using the bus ID detected using the live CD, but of course this
> > is ignored because the card doesn't exist as far as the current system is
> > concerned.
> >
> > Is there a utility I can use to scan the bus and attempt to force
> > recognition of the second card?  Any suggestions welcome.
> >
> > TIA
> > Brian
>
> for starters try lspci  as root and see if both cards are reported.
>
> i use dualhead on FC3 but have a matrox g400 dualhead agp card.
>
Thanks Paul,

lspci only finds one card.  The question is, how to force detection of the 
other one?

thanks and regards
Brian




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