[lug] Moving from integrated to AGP video card

Bear Giles bgiles at coyotesong.com
Fri Oct 19 17:20:03 MDT 2007


Zan Lynx wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 15:04 -0600, 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.
>>     
>
> Check the motherboard manual and see what it says.  It might be a
> hardware jumper on the board
I'll check, but the evil twin who runs XP didn't require popping open 
the case.  I could see a driver changing bios settings, but not a 
hardware jumper.  At this point I'm almost ready to swap cards, just to 
make sure it's not just a bum card.
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