From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 20 8:54:46 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8287B37B405 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 08:54:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BFEA43F93 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 08:54:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net) Received: from nkinkade by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18w3JM-0005lV-00; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 08:54:36 -0800 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 08:54:36 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade To: Adam Lofstedt Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tell X to ignore onboard video card? Message-ID: <20030320165436.GT16932@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Reply-To: nkinkade@fastmail.fm Mail-Followup-To: Adam Lofstedt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <008a01c2eeb4$da3d4e50$6501a8c0@5adam5> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="y2MHPAl/EzyWgzIZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <008a01c2eeb4$da3d4e50$6501a8c0@5adam5> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --y2MHPAl/EzyWgzIZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:46:43PM -0800, Adam Lofstedt wrote: > I have an onboard video chip that doesn't work with XFree86, so I got > another cheap Cirrus Logic PCI video card that I know works with X. > When I did XFree86 -configure, it generated device sections for both > graphics chips. I removed the incompatible one from the config file, > but when I try to startx, it complains that there isn't a device section > for the onboard video chip. >=20 > Is there any way I can tell X to ignore the onboard card? >=20 > Thanks, >=20 > Adam What "Device" is specified in your "Screen" section? The "Device" section by itself is meaningless. The various sections are brought together in a "Screen" section. Take a look at the XF86Config manpage. Nathan --=20 GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc --y2MHPAl/EzyWgzIZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+efJMWZYS9EJQoEwRAhw2AJ90lSZrD6dqvn2fIE9NX7xWzp7hIACgwedd aRKZWOvk2QucJw9TKTTlnXM= =RUsC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y2MHPAl/EzyWgzIZ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message