On 5/29/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Monday 28 May 2007 22:54:22 D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From: Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> > | > | The problem may not have anything to do with the driver for the > | graphics adapter. A few of my systems have embedded graphics adapters. > | Numerous distributions(including Fedora) have choked on the disabled > | embedded adapter. When that happens I resort to text mode install and > | run system-config-display or it's equivalent post install. > > I've certainly run into this problem. With Fedora and Ubuntu. It is > an xorg problem. I haven't gotten to the bottom of it but I do know > that the xorg.conf ebds up with the PCI address of the built-in video > interface not the add-in card. > That sounds as thought the 'built-in' video is not disabled in BIOS. Anne
The built-in uses a jumper on the motherboard for enabling/disabling the interface. "lspci -v" shows that the built-in is disabled; yet, quite a few distributions mess up when configuring the xserver.
