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

[Greg Clifton]

Not highly likely, but the VGA portion of the card, which runs the POST
program and until the drivers load to kick it into "high gear" so to speak,
is good but the high performance part is bad. That is why I thought booting
from a live CD might be good to confirm that the hardware is OK and that the
system boots with the new card on a "clean" OS. That would narrow it down to
a software config issue on your system. I'm a noob with Linux so I can't
help resolve the software issues, but you do want to rule out the
possibility of it being hardware related.

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/05/2011 04:21 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
> > 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
> My position also, in a former life I was a hardware tech, but I had
> already ruled that out. I do get video output through the HD 5770 PCIe
> card on the BIOS portion of boot up. I get through the GRUB menu, that
> will display with no problem. It's when I select which boot option and
> it goes to boot the linux kernel is when the panic happens. It doesn't
> even get to the point where it prompts for the passphrase to unlock my
> LUKS devices.
>
> I'm kind of curious as to when I had Catalyst Control Center installed
> shouldn't I have seen something other than radeon on the output of
> lsmod? I went by the instructions that are listed in the thread about
> installing catalyst/fglrx on the Fedora Forum. In that one they use a
> couple of rpms from RPMFusion. I did find a thread on using the binary
> from AMD/ATI, so I might try that approach.
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