[lug] Dual Graphic Card Boot Problem

Zan Lynx zlynx at acm.org
Thu Nov 13 13:14:24 MST 2003


On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 13:07, Peter Hutnick wrote:
> > Is there a way to tell the kernel what graphic card/monitor to
> > use during bootup? (the main card is an ATI Radeon in the
> > AGP slot, so they _should_ be distinguishable by their PCI
> > bus ID).
> 
> Hopefully you have a BIOS setting like "Primary Video: AGP/PCI"
> 
> If not I think you are out of luck.

I think if you use framebuffers, you might be able to do something like
console=/dev/fb1.

I'll go Google around a bit.  I've never tried it.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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