Hi,

I am pretty new at this so be nice...

Could someone please let me know how I would go about sorting this out?

I installed Fedora 6 using the motherboards built in screen card, trying to install new screen card now, NVidia GF FX 5200...

If i change the bios to use the PCI slot card I get Kernel Panic - not syncing errors... if I change it back to the onboard card it works fine.

I take it I have to rebuild the kernel so it has the new cards details... but how do I do that? ... Changed runlevel to 3 so I boot into text mode but error is way before that, so how do i have the new card enabled and set it up in the kernel? Please point me in the right direction.

Thanks.

that is odd, seems like the graphics card specifics should not even be an issue until X wants to start a GUI...

What about this then?

If I go to my display settings, Dual Head and click, Use Dual Head, I select my monitor, and then in the 2nd video card I have 2 choices, my onboard one... Intel Corp 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller, and then the new one nVidia Corp NV34 [GeForce FX 5200], so I select the nVidia, save, restart and nothing happens on the 2nd screen...
So it is being detected right, you know what else I can try ?

I think i am getting a bit further now, but still need some help please...

This is a copy of my xorg.conf

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# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
# Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0
# Identifier "Multihead layout"
# Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
# Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
Option "Clone" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "nv"
VendorName "Videocard Vendor"
BoardName "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
BusID "PCI:1:1:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "i810"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 1 1
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x864" "1024x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "800x600" "640x480" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x864" "1024x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "800x600" "640x480" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

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As it is above, I can startx on my internal card no problem,
If I comment out screen0 and uncomment screen1, still as single monitor dislpay,
x starts up on my new monitor with nVidia card, BUT... mouse icon doesnt change to an arrow, it remains an "X"... ??? AND, all windows that I open after that dont have to top bar with the, minimize, maximize and close buttons ??? Weird, doesnt matter if it is Firefox or Nautilus or whatever, all the same.

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Ok now I try comment out the single screen part and make the Multi layout bit active, startx and ... nVidia screen initializes, both go into graphics mode, mouse appears as an arrow, I get excited cause it looks like its going to work, then it dies... :-(

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server Aborting
gnome-session : fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0.
X connection to : 0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
it mentions gnome-panel, xinit, nautilus and gnome-window-decorate with similar errors too...

Anyone got any ideas what I can do here?

I tried Xorg -config, it sets up a dual monitor display for me too, but doesnt work either...

Ha!
Incase no 1 noticed, I like talking to myself :-)

I got it !!!

Just incase this happens to someone else,
Some stupid desktop effects thing was enabled, it made the toolbars at the top of each window half transparent, disabled it and tried again with config above. It works perfect.

i was at a loss to find a solution, but i know any well built distro with a properly configured kernel should not kernel panic over the change of a graphics card, and should only need /etc/X11/xorg.conf to be edited to reflect the new graphics card, multiple monitors is something i never done before...