installing with a video card overriding built-in video [was Re: Fedora Core 6 HUGE problem]

[Kam Leo]

On 5/29/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 28 May 2007 22:54:22 D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > | From: Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com>
> > |
> > | The problem may not have anything to do with the driver for the
> > | graphics adapter. A few of my systems have embedded graphics adapters.
> > | Numerous distributions(including Fedora) have choked on the disabled
> > | embedded adapter. When that happens I resort to text mode install and
> > | run system-config-display or it's equivalent post install.
> >
> > I've certainly run into this problem.  With Fedora and Ubuntu.  It is
> > an xorg problem.  I haven't gotten to the bottom of it but I do know
> > that the xorg.conf ebds up with the PCI address of the built-in video
> > interface not the add-in card.
> >
> That sounds as thought the 'built-in' video is not disabled in BIOS.
>
> Anne

The built-in uses a jumper on the motherboard for enabling/disabling
the interface. "lspci -v" shows that the built-in is disabled; yet,
quite a few distributions mess up when configuring the xserver.