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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:20:48 -0000 Julian Hall wrote:
I bought the wrong motherboard. My first ever self built PC),
and an AGP graphics card, and I installed Debian
I'd be inclined to disable the onboard graphics in the BIOS (or anything else "onboard" that conflicts, such as my onboard audio with my Soundblaster 512... disabled onboard, everything went fine). There's not always an OS solution to every problem :)
Kind regards,
Julian
Isn't there an option in most BIOSs to determine which graphics device is to be used as the "primary" display? - Or is that only a PCI/AGP option, rather than an AGP/AGP option? Could this not be used instead of completely disabling the card?
Grant.
So let me get this straight, I thought AGP was the slot in the motherboard for inserting a graphics card. But from they way people are talking, the graphics chip built into the motherboard is also AGP?
I had, perhaps wrongly, assumed that using the AGP slot would automatically override the onboard chip. I had never thought of looking in the BIOS. I'm going to get back to Debian over the weekend and try and sort these issues out, I've been kind of busy this week doing photoshop work. Eventually I'd like to see what graphics software there is for gnome, but I expect it will be a while before I give up photoshop completely. Simply because its hard for an artist to adjust to a new medium.
Sorry if I haven't replied to all those who answered my original post, I will get back to working on that problem over the weekend. In the meantime I just want to say your advice is appreciated. :D
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