Switching Video Cards IN LINUX.
 

Hi.

I dual boot WIN2K and SuSE 7.1.

I have two video cards. PCI - Intergraph (primary). AGP - TNT2 (secondary). As setup in the BIOS config PCI boots first.

WIN2K in the display panel can see both and I can easily switch from one to the other and then move the monitor lead from card 2 card.

When I boot Linux it automatically uses the PCI card which is not supported so I have to run the generic video mode (arghhh). I have been using Linux for awhile now but the resolution is crap and reading documents is hard. It is messy basically.

Anyhow I would like to be able to configure Linux to use the AGP card on Xstartup instead because it is supported. I do not want to change my bios.

How do I do this? I only have one monitor so I don't really want to run two monitors. I just watch to switch cards inside Linux and boot with that card instead.

Any help is appreciated.

i'm no expert, but i'd imagine that your only option would be to set the AGP one as the primary and the PCI one as secondary. i know you don't want to modify the BIOS, but it's a simple change and should probably work. try it and see.

good luck.