Warty Live CD and Video Cards

[Doubletwist]

Russell Cook wrote:
> Hi All,
> I was trying out the Warty Live Cd on my fathers machine. He has a 
> Duron900 motherboard with shared memory video card and a PCI slot video 
> card. Unfortunately, Warty could only detect the internal motherboard 
> card and would then crash on starting X. Even if I moved the VGA cable 
> from the PCI card to the onboard controller and reset the BIOS to make 
> the onboard the primary card it would not start properly.
> 
> I was disappointed as I wanted him to try the Live CD to see if I could 
> wean him off windows :-)
> 
> Any thoughts on how to get around this?
> 

This is obvious so you may have already done it, but since you didn't 
mention it here goes:

Try removing the PCI video card when you re-enable the onboard video. 
Also, get the info from /var/log/XFree86.0.log which could have some 
useful information on why it is crashing.

Good luck!

DT


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