On 5/29/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
On Monday 28 May 2007 22:54:22 D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Kam Leo <kam.leo(a)gmail.com>
> |
> | 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.