Thanks for all the responses. I'll have to try some of this after work tonight.
The common theme though, seems to be to disable the built in video in CMOS/BIOS. That was one of the first things I looked for. Unfortunately it can't be done. There is an option in CMOS only for choosing whether the primary video is AGP or PCI - no disable is present. I suspect the built in video would be automatically disabled if I had been able to find an AGP card that would fit the case. As I wasn't able to do that, I had to use a PCI card and it doesn't disable the built in video - at least not entirely. I found that I had to set the CMOS primary video setting for PCI in order for the Radeon card to even be acknowledged by the system. When I did, the CMOS updated itself to reflect that the built in video card now has 0MB of ram but doesn't appear to have actually disabled it. This is a dual boot box. When it starts up I always hear a POST error (beeps) that indicate video card failure, I presume because of the 0MB video ram thing, but then it proceeds to boot into windows fine. The Radeon card is ok there but the built in video shows that it failed to start in the windows device manager. Since there doesn't seem to be a way to totally disable the integrated video on this mobo I think what I need to do is set up X for dual heads and then disable (or ignore) one of them but I don't know how to do that. a) does this sound reasonable? b) how the heck does one do that? Thanks. Mike Charles A Edwards wrote: > > > The first place to start is your system BIOS, somewhere within it > you should find an option allowing you to disable the onboard video. > > Afterwards rerun the Mandrake installation as Expert/Upgrade. > You need not select any pkgs, but if they are not already installed you will need >Mesa and libMesa for openGL with the Radeon. You can skip the network and printer >configuration. > When you get to the X installation it may still see the S3 but allow you to choose >the Radeon. > You will want 4.20 with 3d hardware accel. > The whole process should take no more than around 15min. > > Rerunning the installation rather than attempting to use XFdrake will ensure that >all the necessary pkgs are installed and that /etc/XF86Config-4 is properly written. > > I have 2 Radeons and both work well. > James wrote: > > It may be working like the integrated sound on my mobo I had to >go into BIOS and turn off the sound TWICE (in too different >locations that's why the caps) in order to get it working. Even >though Linux recognized the sound card it wouldn't let my SBLive! >work until I did this. Now here is the funny part. Even though >sound is turned off in BIOS both cards work. Just that when it's >turned on the pci one doesn't. Also look to see if it's set up for >AGP video only. This may also be the case. > FemmeFatale wrote: > > Check bios, turn off "on-board video". > > -- > Femme > > Good Decisions You boss Made: > > > > On Mon, 06 May 2002 15:10:58 -0400 > Mike Rambo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have an IBM box (300PL) that has integrated S3 video. > > > > My son wants better video so I've obtained a 64MB Radeon > > 7000 PCI video card. I can't use an AGP card even though the > > machine has an AGP slot because of the way the case is built > > - one of those proprietary designs that only a few cards > > will properly fit. > > > > I was surprised to find that the hardware drake didn't > > detect any hardware changes when the box started up. I > > finally have the box booting to init 3. When I run XFdrake > > it finds both video cards now (new Radeon 7000 and the > > original integrated video) but I cannot find a configuration > > that'll work. I really only want the Radeon card set up so > > that's the one I select. It loaded XFree 4.20 the first time > > I selected the Radeon card but the system displays a > > scrambled screen and freezes when I try to test the > > configuration. I skipped the test one time and tried to > > 'startx' but that also displayed garbage and froze. > > -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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