Two many graphics cards!

[madmailman]

Hi all,

I have an old server (Dell Poweredge 2300) with an onboard 8mb ATII graphics card. I had endless issues getting Gnome up and running with the onboard graphics so I put in a PCI 128mb nVisia Graphics card and Gnome worked like a charm even over VNC. I've now moved the server from home to my office server farm. The first boot up evrything worked fine. I emerge --sync and update world and then things just went pear-shaped.

I'm having all sorts of issues getting Gnome and VNC to work. I think if I can get Gnome working vnc will probably work to. When I startx I get:

login as: root
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:
Last login: Sun Sep 2 11:06:32 2007 from 10.1.0.26
localhost ~ # man grep
Formatting page, please wait...
localhost ~ # echo $DISPLAY

localhost ~ # xhost +localhost
xhost: unable to open display ""
localhost ~ # nano ~/.x11vncrc
localhost ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm stop
* Stopping gdm ...
Would send signal 15 to 13842. [ ok ]
localhost ~ # startx
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.14150


X Window System Version 7.2.0
Release Date: 22 January 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.22-gentoo-r2 i686
Current Operating System: Linux localhost 2.6.22-gentoo-r2 #1 SMP Wed Aug 22 00:46:54 SAST 2007 i686
Build Date: 23 August 2007
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Sep 2 11:53:57 2007
(==) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf"
(EE) ATI(0): Cannot read V_BIOS
(EE) ATI(0): Adapter has not been initialised.
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
localhost ~ # nano /root/xorg.conf
localhost ~ #


Now to me it looks like its trying to use the onboard ATI card and not the nVisia. How do I "force" the display to the nVidia or make the ATI card "disappear"?

I am very much a newbie so please assume I know NOTHING! It's probably a VERY accurate assumption.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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