[ale] Best way to get dual display working (take 2k)

[Greg Clifton]

I'm not much help on the software side of this issue, but I suspect you may
have fried your new video card--I've noticed LOTS of static in my
neighborhood lately--when you installed it. Maybe you could try disabling
the integrated graphics and booting a live CD while running off the new card
to prove me wrong?
GC

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here we go again, so now I'm starting to really feel like a ding dong,
>
> I got a HD 5770 PCIe card yesterday from Newegg, supposedly my
> integrated HD 4290 chip is compatible with HD 54xx and above. I had
> already installed the proprietary Catalyst Control Center package so I
> went ahead and installed the card into the primary PCIe x16 slot,
> changed the BIOS settings to initialize the PCIe (PEG) video first and
> had my ViewSonic display plugged into the DVI port. The BIOS portion of
> the boot process got displayed where it should, got to the GRUB menu and
> hit enter to boot default kernel and it just barfed as in kernel panic,
> boot failure.
>
> I then switched it back to the integrated chip and got through the boot,
> logged in and launched CCC as root. CCC not only didn't see the display
> hooked up to the 5770, but didn't see the card either. Doing lspci
> showed 2 different video controllers, (HD 4290, HD 5770), and the GUI
> app Device Manager gave full details on both video controllers, but
> lsmod showed the radeon driver package, shouldn't it be fglrx or
> something like that? Or am I totally out in left field somewhere?
>
> I then went back and disabled the integrated chip throwing it fully on
> to the HD 5770 card, and just got the kernel panic. I switched all back
> to the original and then once logged in I removed the Catalyst package,
> rebooted and the display property app only sees displays on the
> integrated chip.
>
> So what idiotic thing have I done? Or did I just miss some subtle point
> somewhere? Any comments, please?
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