Steve Searle wrote:
I have a (very) old HP Brio that I have attempted to install FC6 on. I
couldn't get the X window system to work at all, I suspect because of
onboard graphics dodgyness. I tried to get round this by installing an
old ATI Mach64 PCI card, but still can't get it to work -
system-config-display just freeses with a garbled display when I try to
run it.
The onboard graphics cant be disabled in the bios or by a jumper, and I
suspect this is causing the problem. lspci reports both cards as being
present, and looking at /etc/X11/xorh.conf this has references to the
onboard graphics card.
Does anyone know how I can disable it, or offer any other advice?
Thanks
Steve
Does the BIOS have a setting where you can change the primary and
secondary card around? I have one system where this is possible.
Also, some boards like the one I described disables the onboard when an
AGP card is installed.
Still some BIOS versions allow you to initialize pci video over the
integrated video.
Since you say that there is no jumper to configure, there should be some
sort of BIOS option to disable, set it to secondary. Of course should
and does are different animals.
Unless you try to perform a text install using xdriver=ati, I would not
have a clue. Of course as Alan mentioned, you can find the pci ids and
add them to the xorg.conf file with information you get from lspci
regarding the video card IDs.
Jim
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