How do I bypass an integrated video card?

[jacatone]

The old Compaq Presario I installed Fiesty on came with an integrated video card which wasn't very good. Instead I installed an Nvidia GeForce 4 AGP card and already the system runs better. I downloaded and installed the nvidia-glx driver but I only see the following in the xorg.conf file:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "vesa"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"

Instead of nvidia under Devices. How do I fix this? Thanks.

[dibl]

Re: How do I bypass an integrated video card?

If you can go into BIOS settings and disable that integrated video chip, that would be the ideal way to solve it.

[SheeEttin]

Re: How do I bypass an integrated video card?

Also Envy, if you need to install drivers.

Though it might be prudent to note that your video card and the integrated card are most likely assigned different PCI IDs. Try "lspci | grep nVidia" or "lspci | grep -i geforce" to find the ID of your nVidia card.

[opie]

Re: How do I bypass an integrated video card?

Assuming that everything installed properly you should be able to manually edit your xorg.conf file.

Firstly you need to do:
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorgbak.conf

(or whatever name you choose in place of xorgbak.conf)

This will save a copy of your xorg.conf file to the same directory and named as xorgbak.conf. This xorgbak.conf can be restored if your graphics fail.

If you have a problem with failed graphics then you can boot into recovery mode and type:

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorgbak.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf

to overwrite the failed xorg file with the original.

Once you have backed up the xorg file you can change the vesa setting within the quotes to nvidia. Retain the quotes around it.

You will also need to add to your Section "Module"

a line that says:
Load "glx"

I think you also need

Load "dri"
in this section as well but perhaps someone will confirm this.