[Cialug] PCI VGA Help

L. V. Lammert lvl at omnitec.net
Mon May 23 11:51:11 CDT 2011


At 08:07 AM 5/23/2011, you wrote:

>    Another thing to try is to set the BIOS to have the PCI as primary.
>Some of the pci cards don't init properly unless they are hit by the
>bios as a primary display.

Confirmed - that's the way we got the external cards to work, .. the 
main problem is that the onboard VGA will not work at all when the 
external card is working. Both show up in dmesg, but no Xorg config 
allows both to run.

         TFTR, however, ..

         Lee 



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