On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 06:52, Ross Macintyre wrote: > Brent, > I've tried doing the same(well using a different card) but I don't see > how to disable the onboard video. I assumed that it would either be > disabled by default or you could disable it in the BIOS. Well it seems > neither is an option. Booting linux again it does recognise (through > kudzu) that the new card is there, and lspci also shows it is there: > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03) > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03) > 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #1) (rev 02) > 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #2) (rev 02) > 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #3) (rev 02) > 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB EHCI Controller (rev 02) > 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge (rev 82) > 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) > 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB ICH4 IDE (rev 02) > 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB SMBus (rev 02) > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio (rev 02) > 01:04.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+] (rev 44) > 01:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4401 (rev 01) > > can you tell me how you disabled the oonoard video and enabled the new > one please? I read somewhere that you could do this through windows but > I've zapped that and I'm sure that's not necessary anyway. > Thanks in advance, Unfortunately the Dell bios doesn't really let you disable the onboard video card, which is why it still shows up in the lspci listing above. What is happening is that redhat-config-xfree86 doesn't have a way of telling which card it should use, therefore it can't auto-generate an XF86Config file in order to bring up the redhat-config-xfree86 GUI. What I wound up doing was installing Xconfigurator from 7.3 (this is really ugly because you will have to force some older packages that Xconfigurator needs to install). Since Xconfigurator has a text interface, you can then choose which card you want to use from the card list. After getting your XF86Config file working, you should then upgrade the packages that you had to downgrade in order to get Xconfigurator working. I know this is a really ugly workaround, but it's what worked for me. The fact that redhat-config-xfree86 does not have a text interface to fall back to in the event that it can't generate a file is a design shortcoming that I will address in the future (probably not in the next release, though). I'll attach the XF86Config file that works for my wife. I've replaced the section for the Radeon with one that should work for your card, but I can't say for sure that it will work. Also, you might need to change the monitor setting depending on what you have. You can look up your monitor settings in /usr/share/hwdata/MonitorsDB. If trying Xconfigurator doesn't work or if you don't feel comfortable doing all the package shuffling to get it to work, you might just try using this XF86Config file and see if it works. Cheers, Brent
# XFree86 4.2.0 configuration generated by Xconfigurator 4.10.7 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "XFree86 Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection # Red Hat Linux 6.0 and later use the xfs font server for improved # interactive performance Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection # Module loading section Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-buffering Load "GLcore" # OpenGL support Load "dri" # Direct rendering infrastructure Load "glx" # OpenGL X protocol interface Load "extmod" # Misc. required extensions Load "v4l" # Video4Linux # Load "record" # X event recorder # You only need the following two modules if you do not use xfs. # Load "freetype" # TrueType font handler # Load "type1" # Adobe Type 1 font handler EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "DELL 1702FP" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown" HorizSync 30 - 80 VertRefresh 56 - 76 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "S3 Trio64(generic)" Driver "s3" BoardName "Unknown" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Linux Frame Buffer" Driver "fbdev" BoardName "Unknown" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "S3 Trio64(generic)" Monitor "DELL 1702FP" DefaultDepth 16 Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection
