[lug] Moving from integrated to AGP video card

[Steve A Hart]

In the motherboard BIOS you should be able to disable the integrated 
video and activate the AGP port.  Once the on-board video is disabled it 
should look for any AGP and/or PCI video card available.

It really has nothing to do with Linux but rather the BIOS for your 
particular motherboard.  If you have your monitor plugged into the AGP 
card and the system boots into the grub screen, then your motherboard 
BIOS is set correctly.  I would boot into single user mode, move 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.orig and then let X fail into 
the configuration program.  You should be able to pick your monitor and 
video card type as well as the resolution and then it will create the 
correct xorg.conf file.  In /etc/X11/xorg.conf your driver should 
default to be "nv".  It should end up going to the graphical login 
screen from there.

Also, you are using an NVIDIA card, make sure you download the latest 
NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver for your card.  To install the 
driver, boot into single user and run the NVIDIA script you downloaded. 
  It will install the kernel modules for the accelerated graphics.  Just 
make sure to change your driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf from "nv" to 
"nvidia" then continue the to boot normally.  You should see the NVIDIA 
splash screen right before the standard graphical login.

If you are running something like Ubuntu, the nvidia accelerated 
graphics should load themselves through the package management program. 
   Other distros may or may not load the driver automatically.

Hopefully that makes sense.....

Bear Giles wrote:
> Does anyone else have experience moving from an integrated to an AGP 
> (nvidia) card?
> 
> I didn't have a problem with identical hardware running windows.
> 
> On Linux, I went into the bios and tried changing the default video 
> driver, no joy.  X -configure doesn't seem to see video card either.  
> It's rather annoying since the integrated controller is limited to 
> 1024x768 under Linux.
> 
> Bear
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