[lug] Moving from integrated to AGP video card

[Bear Giles]

No video if I just attach monitor and boot it.

I did find one place with an AGP/PCI selector, but it's already AGP. 

Steve A Hart wrote:
> Hmmm....In reality you should not even need to disable the on-board 
> video.  Just plug in the monitor to the AGP card and start it up.  If 
> that doesn't work, then there has to be a setting in the BIOS 
> somewhere where you can enable AGP as the default video setting.  
> Might not be a setting to disable the on-board but there should be 
> something that you can set to AGP.  I mean, the board has an AGP port 
> so the BIOS MUST have a setting for it.
>
> Bear Giles wrote:
>> 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