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My onboard video adapter blew out and I want to use a card.  Windows98 does
fine but my linux will not work.  I run the Xconfigurator and it detects the
sis (onboard) video and not the trident (PCI).  How can I force it to use
the PCI?
Thanks,
Paul

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From the SIS video I assume you're having an IBM. The HMM contains the jumper
settings for the mobo, there's bound to be a jumper for disabling the onboard
video.

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There is not a jumper on the motherboard.  there is something in the bios
but it is just for saying which is the primary.  It doesn't shut off the
onboard.

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If you make the new card the primary, is that not bypassing the onboard
video ?

Cheers

Dave

There is a manual for the board somewhere in the space-time continuum. Find it.

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I didn't specifically say that I got the information from the manual but
that is how I knew about the bios setting and that there is no jumper on the
motherboard.

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The lspci (probably /sbin/lspci) command gives you a list of devices on the
PCI bus. Look for your graphics adapter. In your XF86Config (something like
/etc/X11/XF86Config), section "Device", add the line
  BusID      "PCI:a:b:c"
where a:b.c is the number you see at the beginning of the lspci line of the
graphics adapter. See the manpages of lspci and XF86Config for additional
info. Maybe you must also write the right driver entry in XF86Config, which
I don't know by heart. And umpf, I just see that (a and b should both be 0,
but) b is given as 2-digit hex value in lspci, but as 2-digit decimal value
in XF86Config. For lspci:Oa, 0b...it would be in XF86Config:10,11...

--Ralf