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vrek
07-09-2003, 03:44 PM
Hello,
I currently have 2 video cards in my system a PCI Radeon 32 MB SDR and a Intel i810 onboard AGP card. Both of which are reconized in the bootprocess with no noticible errors. The problem comes in to play with activating the 810 card. There are no jumpers on my mobo and the only setting in bios is rather it should use 1MB or 512k memory. I called Tech support and they said there should be a option in the bios(what help :-) ) and since I couldn't find that to disable through the device manager in windows(which I did). Well now I want to use it again(I can't get DRI working with the radeon, glxgears reports ~100 FPS way too low, and I want to see the 810 will work better) and when I go into device manager to re-activate it Windows hangs and crashed(typical :-) ), I've tried many times each of which ended in a crash. I figured I would test my luck plug in my monitor into the 810 port but my monitor couldn't recieve any signal. Can anyone help me activate it? I comipiled the drivers into the kernel for both the radeon and the 810.Help appreciated.

mdwatts
07-09-2003, 04:10 PM
You are trying to activate the video card in the Windows device manager so you can use it in Linux? Won't work.

Are you sure you have checked ALL the bios menus and settings?

vrek
07-09-2003, 04:19 PM
Yes I have check my bios completly. Its a rather simple bios so I can be sure there is no option. I don't even get the POST screen through the 810 which leads me to think it was deactivated through the device manager(only place I know which could do it) prior to any driver loading or anythng. Any suggestions on what I can do?

sploo22
07-09-2003, 04:38 PM
Try taking out the new graphics card :)

It could well be the case that the onboard one was automatically deactivated by the BIOS when it detected that there was a new one.

I've had all kinds of problems with onboard graphics chips; that's why I'm building my next computer :D

mdwatts
07-09-2003, 04:47 PM
Originally posted by sploo22
I've had all kinds of problems with onboard graphics chips; that's why I'm building my next computer :D

I prefer nothing else included with the motherboard though I will tolerate ethernet & sound if they are well supported in Linux, but never those darn onboard video cards. Nosiree !!!

Modorf
07-09-2003, 04:52 PM
do an 'lspci' this will list if the i810 graphics card is being found.

if found, you will want to add BusID section to your video card device info in the XF86Config-4 :

This is for my Matrox G400

lspci output for G400:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 04)

XF86Config-4 section for G400
Section "Device"
Identifier "G400"
Driver "mga"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "hw cursor" "on"
VideoRam 16384
EndSection