Onboard graphics woe

[Alan]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:34:09 +0000
Steve Searle <steve at stevesearle.com> 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?

Firstly in xorg.conf change the name to the driver for the Mach64 card
not the onboard video. If both use the same driver you can use the PCI ID
stuff to specify explicitly which device.

What is the onboard video btw and when disabled
how does it look in lspci -vxx

Alan