Nope, grab the motherboard manual, and look for an onboard vga disable jumper. If you can't find the manual, you may be able to eyeball it with a flashlight.
Andrew
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From: me@glennmeyer.com
Reply-To: slug@nks.net
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 06:06 +0100
>>If you go into your BIOS settings you should have the ability to disable
>>the onboard card..
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>This system has Phoenix BIOS Setup. I see only 3 settings mentioning VIDEO...
>1.) Video System [EGA/VGA] can toggle to Monochrome or CGA 80x25 .
>2.) Under MEMORY and CACHE
> A.) CACHE VIDEO BIOS: [ENABLED] - can toggle to DISABLED.
> B.) VIDEO SHADOW: [ENABLED] - can toggle to DISABLED.
>
>Do any of those setting sound like they would disable the on-board video in favor of putting in a seperate PCI video card?
>
>Thank you for your help!!
>Glenn.
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>>On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 me@glennmeyer.com wrote:
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>>> I have an on-board video card that has caused constant problems during installations - the last straw is that I cannot get through the RedHat 7.1 installation - Xserver seems to crash the entire installation.
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if there is a way for me add a PCI video card and not use the on-board card?
>>>
>>> The system is an older Digital Celebris GL 6180 Pentium Pro 180 - unfortunately, it is a proprietary case and board arrangement, so upgrading the motherboard is out.
>>>
>>> The on-board video card is a Matrox Millenium MGA 2064W (2MB - not shared RAM) and should use the XF86_SVGA server. Yes, this card is on the RedHat HCL and should be fully compatible.
>>>
>>> Can I buy a plain PCI video card (that is also on the HCL), add it to the system and use it rather than the on-board card? Will the RedHat installation still see the on-board card and try to use it?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your input!!
>>>
>>> Glenn Meyer
>>> Valrico
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