[Cialug] PCI VGA Help

[James Shoemaker]

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On 05/23/2011 11:51 AM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> 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.

   Have seen that situation, ended up with 2 video cards and the onboard
disabled to get dual headed.

James
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