[95810] in RedHat Linux List
Onboard Video revisited
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Cifreo)
Wed Oct 21 12:47:57 1998
From: Eric Cifreo <Eric@kazan.com>
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 11:47:17 -0500
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Hi folks,
About a month ago, Barnett Hsu tried to disable his one-meg
onboard video chipset, and Zoki tried to help him out. What
ever became of this? Is there a DOS PNP disable utility out
there? Or do I have to "contact the manufacturer of Linux?" 8)
I've stepped into the same hole. I have an old PackBell (I know,
like Robert Plant, "Nobody's Fault But Mine...") with 1 meg of
Cirrus Logic onboard. It dual boots Win98/RH 5.1. It's detected
under both OSs. However xf86config and Xconfigurator always point
to the Cirrus, not my new Riva 128 card. The Riva shows up in
/proc/pci on IRQ 11 with memory address and all the right specs.
My system manual describes no jumper to disable onboard video
(although many are marked "reserved"), I've scoured the BIOS and
still no option. I've e-mailed support@packardbell.com, but don't
really expect to hear anything soon. To their credit, they did
answer my last question about >6G hard drives in only 6 days, and
without even begging for money!
Thanks from the get go.
I'd really hate to have to move the new card to my NT/Win98 machine.
Eric Cifreo
Austin, TX
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