selecting videocard for the console
Keith Hunt
keith.hunt at gmail.com
Fri Oct 22 15:58:13 UTC 2004
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:47:09 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings
<cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
> Keith Hunt wrote:
> > Thanks. I am not at the moment concerned with running a dual-headed
> > display. I only have one monitor right now. Someday I hope to have
> > two, so I didn't want to take the second videocard out. The "problem"
> > is that the card that is not connected to the monitor is being
> > selected as the primary and all the conole messages are sent there, so
> > I don't see the boot messages or the login prompt without switching
> > the monitor cable. Once I login I can get X started on the card I
> > want. It's just an annoyance.
> >
> > Both cards are PCI. Perhaps the location is the determining factor.
> > That is what I have suspected but I would like to know for sure, as
> > well as being curious about whether the selection is "tweakable"
> > somewhere.
>
> If it is tweakable, it would be in your motherboard's CMOS Setup. You
> will need to look there. Otherwise, it's almost certainly PCI slot
> specific (specific to the order in which your motherboard's BIOS
> searches for videocards in the PCI slots). The simple thing to do would
> be to switch the locations of the video cards....
Yeah, that might do it.
>
> I have seen CMOS Setup selections for choosing AGP before PCI and vice
> versa, but I don't remember seeing a selection for which PCI slot in any
> of my motherboards. [That doesn't mean there weren't any, just that I
> don't remember seeing them!]
>
My system works as you remember. I can select AGP or PCI, but not any
specific PCI address.
> Question, does the monitor show you the BIOS messages during bootup?
> This would be a simple test to know if its the video card that the BIOS
> sees first.... If so, then something in the Linux video initialization
> must be different. *That* I don't know how to fix.
No, I don't even see the BIOS messages. Oh well, I guess I will just
switch the cards or take the second one out. Not a big deal. Thanks
for your help.
>
> --
> Kevin J. Cummings
> kjchome at rcn.com
> cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
> cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
>
--
Keith
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