intel card not working when booting on another VGA card

Ian Romanick idr at freedesktop.org
Wed Dec 10 00:18:17 PST 2008


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strawks wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a Gigabyte motherboard (µATX) with an integrated G45 chipset.
> I have added an ATI card to play some games.
> 
> When I boot on the ATI card (select PEG card first in the bios), I can't
> get the intel driver in xorg to display anything.

That's because when you install an external PCI-e card it physically
disables the integrated graphics.  Some of the mobile chipsets support
multigraphics, but as far as I'm aware none of the desktop ones do.
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