[lug] Moving from integrated to AGP video card

[Bear Giles]

That was my first thought, but I can't find anything that would actually 
disable the integrated video.  (Phoenix bios, if that helps).  I've gone 
through all of the menus.  It would be acceptable to keep this video up 
as long as I can set up an X session on the second video controller, but 
it's not getting seen.

Steve A Hart wrote:
> 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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