Re: xfree and onboard vga

Robby Russell wrote:

>xfree86 and 2 video cards
>My girlfriend is trying to get mandrake 9 working on her dell pc. It has
>an onboard video card (intel 810) and she has a 2nd video card (ati rage
>128 pci) that she added after she got the machine.
>Should be simple enough to get her machine to work with the ati rather
>than the 810 correct? Her windows XP partition runs fine... not a problem
>with the video.
>When it came time to setup the Xserver configuration in the install she
>tried to select the ati rage 128...and found it, set the standard 1024x768
>resolution...and hit test and black. Nothing. It hangs the machine. We
>booted into the console... tried to configure the display settings with
>DrakConf..same thing. It always defaults to the Intel 810 when we go to
>configure the Xfree86 settings. Is there a way to verify which device it
>is attempting to use for the Xserver?
>We even went as far as plugging in a 2nd monitor to see if that would
>work. It still didnt quite work. It reset the 2nd monitor like it was
>going to do something..and black..and hang.
>
>Any thoughts as to how we should go about resolving this issue?
>
>thanks
>  
>
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Robby,
If you are only trying to use the ATi card and not both videos in that 
machine, then just disable the onboard i810 video in the BIOS of the 
machine.  You should be able to turn it off either with the BIOS 
settings or with a jumper on the motherboard.  Once disabled, your 
machine should only show one graphics adapter instead of two as it 
presently does.

Patrick

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