Installing Mandrake on PC with dual VGA cards

[Installing Mandrake on PC with dual VGA cards]

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P.S. nevermind, I looked at the manual. So, the geoforce is a PCI card? If you choose in the bios; advanced-->Primary Graphics Adapter--> PCI/int VGA it reboots continuously?

Thats correct, the screen will go blank as it like is trying to load to graphic mode and the reboots the pc.

I got this reply from asrock about disabling the onboard graphics.

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Dear Thulani,

Thanks for contacting ASRock. Due to chipset limitation, it is no way to disable onboard VGA on P4i45GV.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Best Regards
ASRock

[Installing Mandrake on PC with dual VGA cards]

Hi,

 

I did a fresh install and now the geforce is working. The problem is when I set on bios the PCI as the card to use the mandrake crashes while loading and restarts over and over until I change to onboard vga, but that means I wont see a thing until the desktop login (I can't see grub where I do a dual boot), how can I solve this problem.

 

Kind regards

[Installing Mandrake on PC with dual VGA cards]

Hi,

 

Thanks for your quick response, some developments, when I browse through the detected hardware list I can see the Geforce card, how can I make it the primary card i.e. something to do with configuring the X config file. please bear with me am a new baby in linux.

 

regards

[Installing Mandrake on PC with dual VGA cards]

Hi,

 

I have just installed Mandrake LE2005 on my pc (asrock P4I45GV motherboad, with intergrated VGA and Geforce4 on AGP slot), I have tried to make the Geforce as my primary vga but only the onboard vga is detected by Mandrake on setup. I have sent a mail to asrock requesting some info on how to physically disable the onboard vga as I don't need it.

 

In the mean time is there a work around in Mandrake to have a dual view.

 

Kind regards

Thulani