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Metal Man88 Gold axe It appears we have been transported to a time in which everything is on fire!                    Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6330 days Last view: 6330 days |
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| Hey. Well, I have myself a bit of a horribly annoying problem, mostly to do with trying to get my newly installed Radeon 7000 to work. I've managed only to nearly destroy my X server at least three times and wasted countless time by myself. I'm a tinkerer, but this stuff gets scary when I start messing with it.
I want to make it so that both my Radeon and my motherboard integrated video run simultaneously, allowing me to use one monitor and just moving the cable between them. (I have many monitors, but no interest in the possibility of not just one, but two, or even three at once) however, a mountain of settings in the file combined with the Russian Roullette aspect of it means that I need help from someone who's done this before. Attached is my current configuration. Go ahead and tell me what needs to be added, if you can do anything 'bout it. |
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FreeDOS + Giant Red Koopa Legion: freedos = fritos  Since: 11-17-05 From: Seattle Last post: 6330 days Last view: 6330 days |
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| Almost always, motherboards don't allow integrated chips to be used when you have a real card installed. Sorry buddy, but you're probably going to have to get a second real card. | |||
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Metal Man88 Gold axe It appears we have been transported to a time in which everything is on fire! Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6330 days Last view: 6330 days |
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| Well, the thing is, I don't really need both to work at once. The problem is, I can't seem to disable the onboard video (no jumpers/CMOS options/anything) in order to use a vanilla PCI video card. Now, normally, people would buy PCI-E cards, which, once inserted, probably would trigger it to switch. However I have an old card which is slightly better than nothing (I.E. onboard video) and want it to work.
Is there any 'safe' or effective utility which could override my current settings and make it initialize that card instead of the onboard one? *Smacks his Gigabyte GA-81945G Pro for not having anything in its documentation 'bout this* I'd just disable the onboard one in hardware and have Linux figure out how to get this card working with its relatively functional auto-detect, however I can't seem to figure out how to disable the onboard one. Thanks for the reply, anyway. Oh! Right. This motherboard is doing the opposite of what you said--it's sorta blocking me from using my new card over its own integrated one. So that isn't my problem--if I could get Linux to init the PCI card, I wouldn't even need the other one anyway. |
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BMF54123 Since: 11-18-05 From: MOOGLES Last post: 6331 days Last view: 6330 days |
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| There's no "Init Display First" or "Primary Graphics Adapter" or similar option? Most motherboards I've seen have such an option (for example, my MSI KT4AV-L lets you choose between PCI or AGP, but then again it has no on-board video).
If not, it sounds like the board is indeed looking for either an AGP or PCI-E card and ignoring the PCI bus, and all you can do is either hope for a BIOS update that addresses the issue, or get a new video card. I'm sure most cheapo low-end AGP cards on the market nowadays would outperform that Radeon 7000.  |
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