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heljy:
I was trying to install RH 8.0 onto my system. It has a 810 integrated video card, but I have upgraded that to an ATI Radeon 7500 64MB PCI and disabled the integrated intel 810.

But RH detected the intel 810 video card instead, so I manually changed that to Radeon 7500. The problem is when the system trys to start X, the screen just froze up although I can move the mouse cusor around.

Any sugguestions how I can fix that?

Thanks

voidmain:
I have a stupid question. How could it have detected the 810 if you have it disabled? Is there a jumper on your main board for really disabling it?

mobrien_12:
Try running XF86Setup, xconfigurator, or xf86config, and manually specifying the new video card, rather then letting something automatically detect it.

When I first ran linux on an i810 chipset, I was using RH6.2 which didn't come with an agpgart kernel module.  Without agpgart, the i810 graphics chipset is crippled because it can only use something ridiculous like 512kB video RAM.  I added an S3VirgeDX PCI card and had no problems.  No jumpers were necessary.  

Later, when I went to RH 7.1, I pulled the PCI card and reconfigured the system to use the i810. Again, no jumpers were needed.

[ January 18, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

heljy:

quote:Originally posted by void main:
I have a stupid question. How could it have detected the 810 if you have it disabled? Is there a jumper on your main board for really disabling it?
--- End quote ---


Maybe you are right, I might not have disabled it. I only switch the primiary video from onboard to PCI. I will try to see if I can find any jumpers onboard that actually disable the onboard video (the mobo didnt come with any documentation at all)

Thanks for the advice!

Doogee:
did u disable it in the BIOS/CMOS?

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