Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:44:09 -0600 From: "Justin W. Pauler" <jwpauler@jwpages.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Rachmat Hidajat <rachmat@canada.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 video cards Message-ID: <00122000440903.06072@wks01.drnet.fais.net> In-Reply-To: <20001219223607.G19572@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <3A40CE45.5273.9DF074C@localhost> <20001219223607.G19572@fw.wintelcom.net>
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I would FIRST check your BIOS. On my Dell system here, and I have seen this on many other systems, including old, old, OLD, ones :P, they have an option to disable on-board stuff. Such as, on this machine, I can disable the on board video, sound, kbd (I guess incase I want no-kbd or USB) and even the mouse port. When I built a system for a buddy of mine, that hung me up for a couple of hours. I put a sound card in and it had a cheap one on the motherboard. I thought the system would choose the new one, over the motherboard. In turn, neither worked and it continousuly barked about IRQ conflicts. (This was a windows machine). I got a hint from someone and upon chaning it and restarting, everything went perfect right away. -jwp On Wednesday 20 December 2000 00:36, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Rachmat Hidajat <rachmat@canada.com> [001219 22:27] wrote: > > Hi all!!! > > My computer is equipped with 2 video cards, one is an on board > > NEC PC-98x1 and the other is a PCI Matrox MGA Millenium card. > > When I run X-window, it automatically switches to Matrox card and > > when I finish using x-window it switches back to the on board card. > > So, I have to plug and unplug the monitor cable between those two > > cards. Is it possible to run both text and x-window modes using a > > single card, preferrably the Matrox one? > > (I had to do the similar thing when I was using windows95 in the > > same computer). > > Some motherboards allow you to disable the onboard video via a > jumper or BIOS configuration, I would check your motherboard docs > and BIOS setup. > > It's also possible to tell XFree to use your onboard video controller > by giving it explicit instructions via the XFree config file. > > Lastly you could look into getting a monitor switch so that you > don't need to fiddle with the cables when going from text<->video. > > best of luck, -- Justin W. Pauler (drnet) E-Mail: jwpauler@jwpages.com WWW: http://www.jwpages.com IRC: Undernet IRC Network, #EggDrop To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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