K major updates so if you read this before ... go ahead and check out the new info, got home and recovered the system so I have more details.
Problem: OK intel i810 video chipset is being detected even though it is disabled, its detected by agpgart and says something to the effect "agpgart: Detected an Intel(R) i810, but could not find the secondary device." Again... in BIOS I have it disabled!!!
It works fine when booted into run level 3, and using my custom xorg.conf for the PCI radeon 7000 card. I will log in root at run lvl 3, then type, init 5 and it works great!. (and im getting the agpgart error still so maybe this is not the real issue?)
Initialy when I installed fedora core everything worked fine. The radeon was the only detected card and install/first boot went perfectly! I was impressed...
Second boot, failure. The disabled intel card was scanned, agpgart complained about no secondary device, and X crashed the system.
Technical info...
Intel graphics adapter is on PCI bus 1:1:1 (this is an onboard card... dunno how the bus archicture is on the mobo... looks to use a PCI bus..)
Here I post an lspci
Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 GMCH [Graphics Memory Controller Hub] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 02)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
01:04.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
and my Xorg device section...
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]"
BusID "PCI:1:4:0"
EndSection
Radeon PCI adapter is on bus 1:4:0
As you can see I disabled it in the BIOS and lspci does not detect the Intel i810 at PCI:01:00.0 even though agpgart seems too...
I guess my question and the answer/s I would like are...
Is there some kinda of script FC5 runs everytime it goes init 5 (graphical) to check if video cards have changed, can I disable it? or disable the part that checks graphics adapters? Is this a problem with xorg or agpgart or neither? I checked all my xorg logs under /var/logs and they say nothing about intel chips
Im not new to linux... I am new to fedora core though, and I do not know much about how the init scripts work for it, and I was wondering if someone might have some inside info so I do not have to search every line of code to find the line to comment out =P... maybe theres a trick with SeLinux? It doesn't look like something I can force in my xorg.conf file, as I already tried this and it achived nothing, I used knoppix live CD to fix the init lvls, boot into init 3, then go init 5 from the root login prompt... Most people say for duel head/onboard video card systems... to use xorg.conf or disable in BIOS, neither worked here... so I am wondering if its even a configuration issue?
It seems to REALY be an issue reguarding init-3 to init-5 scripts during boot up, maybe because im using the graphical login? (framebuffer) device?! I may be calling it a framebuffer when its realy X thats showing the system initialization... is it a framebuffer or a pre-X X shell? I know under slack and suse, anything before the X login screen is a tried and true frame buffer device, maybe I just need to blacklist the framebuffer module and fix my grub options?!
So the only diffrence here is booting with framebuffer support going to init 5 crash.
Booting with init 3, no graphical support prior to starting X, we are fine.
This is realy stumpin me! Any ideas would be great... I love Fedora core, and this box is great once it boots into X! - this is just for personal use/demonstration purposes and I wan't to be able to give this box to someone else and let them use it without the hassle!