From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 19 22:44:23 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 22:44:21 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pro.fais.net (mail.fais.net [208.249.141.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B584A37B402 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 22:44:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from drnet.fais.net (drnet.fais.net [208.249.141.246]) by pro.fais.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id BAA02884; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 01:29:27 -0600 Received: from wks01.drnet.fais.net (wks01.drnet.fais.net [10.64.80.10]) by drnet.fais.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id eBK6iBM01594; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:44:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jwpauler@jwpages.com) From: "Justin W. Pauler" Reply-To: jwpauler@jwpages.com Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:44:09 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: Alfred Perlstein , Rachmat Hidajat References: <3A40CE45.5273.9DF074C@localhost> <20001219223607.G19572@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20001219223607.G19572@fw.wintelcom.net> Subject: Re: 2 video cards MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00122000440903.06072@wks01.drnet.fais.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would FIRST check your BIOS. On my Dell system here, and I have seen this on many other systems, including old, old, OLD, ones :P, they have an option to disable on-board stuff. Such as, on this machine, I can disable the on board video, sound, kbd (I guess incase I want no-kbd or USB) and even the mouse port. When I built a system for a buddy of mine, that hung me up for a couple of hours. I put a sound card in and it had a cheap one on the motherboard. I thought the system would choose the new one, over the motherboard. In turn, neither worked and it continousuly barked about IRQ conflicts. (This was a windows machine). I got a hint from someone and upon chaning it and restarting, everything went perfect right away. -jwp On Wednesday 20 December 2000 00:36, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Rachmat Hidajat [001219 22:27] wrote: > > Hi all!!! > > My computer is equipped with 2 video cards, one is an on board > > NEC PC-98x1 and the other is a PCI Matrox MGA Millenium card. > > When I run X-window, it automatically switches to Matrox card and > > when I finish using x-window it switches back to the on board card. > > So, I have to plug and unplug the monitor cable between those two > > cards. Is it possible to run both text and x-window modes using a > > single card, preferrably the Matrox one? > > (I had to do the similar thing when I was using windows95 in the > > same computer). > > Some motherboards allow you to disable the onboard video via a > jumper or BIOS configuration, I would check your motherboard docs > and BIOS setup. > > It's also possible to tell XFree to use your onboard video controller > by giving it explicit instructions via the XFree config file. > > Lastly you could look into getting a monitor switch so that you > don't need to fiddle with the cables when going from text<->video. > > best of luck, -- Justin W. Pauler (drnet) E-Mail: jwpauler@jwpages.com WWW: http://www.jwpages.com IRC: Undernet IRC Network, #EggDrop To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message