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graysky

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Nvidia 6200 on a board withonboard Intel video causes problems

I have a G45 based board with an onboard Intel X4500HD.  The problem is that I need to use an nvidia 6200 PCI card NOT the onboard Intel stuff.  If I install the nvidia-304xx drivers, and reboot, the i915 modules are still loaded and when I attempt to start X, the screen goes black.  My solution was to create /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist_onboard_video.conf that contains:

blacklist	i915

If I rebuild my kernel images and reboot, indeed, the video card works in X but the graphic are all corrupted.  Videos don't play, I see choppy lines, etc.  Here is an except from dmesg:

[  177.781456] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:03:00): 6, PE0001 0c44 ff202020 0000f474 00000000 00000000
[  244.805800] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:03:00): 6, PE0000 0000 00017c00 00000000 00000000 00000000
[  251.421819] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:03:00): 6, PE0001 0c44 ff202020 0000f474 00000000 00000000
[  321.676812] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:03:00): 6, PE0000 011c 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[  328.172417] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:03:00): 6, PE0001 0c44 ff202020 0000f474 00000000 00000000

I'm thinking that the problem has to do with the on board stuff not wanting to let the nvidia card take over... either that or hardware problems with the 6200 but it is brand new.  Any thoughts?

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