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Disable VGA on motherboard ?

Linux-ia64 Hiram Clawson, 831-427-7519 3 participants 4 messages Jun 15, 2000

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Good Morning IA64 Fans:

Has anyone successfully turned off the motherboard VGA graphics system and used a plug in video board ? I have set the BIOS setup option to "Absent" for on-board VGA, but it continues to be used. This is a server version of the SDV.

--Hiram

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Quoted 6 lines · On Thu, Jun 15, 2000, Hiram Clawson, 831-427-7519 <[email protected]> wrote:

Has anyone successfully turned off the motherboard VGA graphics system and used a plug in video board ? I have set the BIOS setup option to "Absent" for on-board VGA, but it continues to be used. This is a server version of the SDV.

We've done this with the Lion without any problems. We didn't need to configure anything in the BIOS either.

I do think you need to place the video card in a specific set of slots. I'll check on that.

JE

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In reply to Hiram Clawson, 831-427-7519

Thanks for the idea JE. This was the problem, the video card has to be in slot one nearest the existing video connectors. It just works when placed there, no BIOS adjustment needed.

--Hiram - [email protected]

Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:48:42 -0700
From: Johannes Erdfelt <[email protected]>
To: "Hiram Clawson, 831-427-7519" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Disable VGA on motherboard ?

We've done this with the Lion without any problems. We didn't need to configure anything in the BIOS either.

I do think you need to place the video card in a specific set of slots. I'll check on that.

JE

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In reply to Hiram Clawson, 831-427-7519

Yes, you need to put the video card in the PCI bus 0 and they are marked (lowest slot #).

Thanks,
Asit

-----Original Message-----
From: Hiram Clawson, 831-427-7519 [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 1:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Disable VGA on motherboard ?

Thanks for the idea JE. This was the problem, the video card has to be in slot one nearest the existing video connectors. It just works when placed there, no BIOS adjustment needed.

--Hiram - [email protected]

Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:48:42 -0700
From: Johannes Erdfelt <[email protected]>
To: "Hiram Clawson, 831-427-7519" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Disable VGA on motherboard ?

We've done this with the Lion without any problems. We didn't need to configure anything in the BIOS either.

I do think you need to place the video card in a specific set of slots. I'll check on that.

JE

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