I think the bug description solved a mystery I was faced with: I have an old HP Pavilion 6630 (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=bph05258&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=pl&product=59927&lang=pl) with the most-up-to-date BIOS available (FresnoCognac_307) and its onboard video chip (Intel) is starting to have minor video jitters, so I wanted to add a new video card. The computer only has PCI slots, so that's what I added and then disabled the onboard one in the BIOS (or at least, that's what the BIOS said). I had forgotten to switch the video cable to the card and the computer beeped furiously at me when I tried to boot it up, so I quickly switched it to the card and it appeared to begin booting no problem...
Unfortunately, Ubuntu wouldn't finish booting. A Live CD wouldn't fully boot up either. Booting from the HD with safe graphics got me to a root command prompt where I could run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and it was then that I noticed that when it autodetected the video, it was choosing the onboard Intel instead of the S3 ViRGE-based card. lspci showed me that the S3 was located at "01:0e.0" and so I eventually got it working (though the S3 had its own problems :) but I couldn't figure out why it didn't automatically detect the S3 as the working shipset. Apparently its a BIOS issue. Too bad X doesn't just recognize what chipset its directly plugged into ;) -- wrong primary display selected in multihead setup (PCI bus enumeration order) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/55928 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
