Re: Selecting video card on boot

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Alex B wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I have two video card on my PC. Linux uses PCI Card as console by default.
> How can I force it to use AGP card?
> 
> I haven't BIOS capability of selecting first video card.
> 

If you need vgacon, you can't, unless you have the BIOS capability.

If you enable the framebuffer and the framebuffer console, you can select
which driver/hardware pair gets mapped to the console using the boot option:

fbcon=map:n (0 for the first framebuffer, 1 for the 2nd, etc as they would
	appear in /proc/fb)

Tony
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