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Date:      Thu, 15 Sep 2005 23:15:53 -0400
From:      Scott Madley <scott.madley@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   2nd monitor not powering up (stuck in standby)
Message-ID:  <91c803f005091520153ebff441@mail.gmail.com>

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Slightly weird problem. I'm running a 5.4-current dual-head Xinerama setup=
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(using two Nvidia FX5500 PCI cards). Powered off my box to move. Powered up=
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box. Second monitor is now stuck in standby state (appears to be not be=20
receiving signal from the motherboard). Monitor that doesn't work is=20
orginally terminated to card in pci slot#2. Remove all the video cards,=20
throw a single card in pci slot #2, get signal. Throw second video card in=
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unused slot (try both #1 and #3), second monitor doesn't get signal. I've=
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verified both monitors are good. Box in question is a Dell Dimension 8400.

Dmesg indicates that it detects both cards, xorg config file is good. I've=
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got the latest video drivers, a and pretty recent Xorg version. I've reset=
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BIOS, I've verified from what I can tell that FreeBSD isn't doing anything=
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stupid. Other then thinking it may be a power issue, I'm pretty much=20
stumped.=20

So has anyone seen something similar to this? Many thanks in advance.

Cheers,
/madley



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