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HOWTO: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 PCI over Intel 845 onboard graphics
Wow, I finally got my NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 PCI to work properly. My PC has onboard Intel 845GV graphics so whenever I tried to switch to the NVIDIA, my computer would freeze on bootup at the hotplug section. Even though I disabled the onboard graphics in the BIOS, agpgart would still try to load the onboard graphics instead of my NVIDIA. After beating my head against the wall for 2 days, here's what I did to finally make it work. Please note this may not work for everyone.
Here's my system: Ubuntu 5.04 Kernel: 2.6.10-5-686 Compaq SR1210NX 512 mb Ram Intel Celeron D 330 - 2.66 GHZ, 256kb L2 Cache, 533 Mhz FSB 80 GB Hard drive http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...name=c00063244 PREWORK: Configure Linux to boot into text mode by default - not X. I'm not sure of an easy way to do this with Ubuntu (because I used Webmin), but you basically don't want X to but up in runlevel 2, in case something goes wrong, you'll at least get to a login prompt easily. You can try using update-rc.d to reconfigure gdm to boot only in 3, 4, and 5 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=20583 1. Figure out what PCI port your NVIDIA card is on (Mine is PCI:1:9:0) Code:
lspci -X Code:
mstralka@ubuntu:~ $ lspci -X PCI:0:0:0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface PCI:0:2:0 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device PCI:0:29:0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 PCI:0:29:1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 PCI:0:29:2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 PCI:0:29:7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI Controller PCI:0:30:0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge PCI:0:31:0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Bridge PCI:0:31:1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) UltraATA-100 IDE Controller PCI:0:31:3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller PCI:0:31:5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller PCI:1:9:0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5500] PCI:1:12:0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ 2. Follow the Ubuntu 5.04 Starter Guide instructions to install the NVIDIA drivers http://ubuntuguide.org/#installnvidiadriver - here's the important part Code:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup sudo nvidia-glx-config enable Code:
sudo gedit /etc/modules Code:
nvidia Code:
sudo gedit /etc/hotplug/blacklist Code:
agpgart intel_agp -In Section "Modules", be sure to comment out GLCore and DRI, but make sure glx is enabled. -Modify the Section "Device" appropriately for your system. Mine looks like this: Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5500]"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:9:0"
Option "NvAGP" "1"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "NoLogo" #This is optional - it will hide the NVIDIA splash screen
#0 : Disable AGP
#1 : use NVIDIA's internal AGP support, if possible
#2 : use AGPGART if possible
#3 : use any agp support (try AGPGART, then NVIDIA's AGP)
EndSection
7. Unplug your monitor from your onboard video card and plug it into the NVIDIA card 8. If it hangs at hotplug, do a hard-reboot, and when it gets to hotplug again, press CTRL-C and adjust settings. 9. Try to start X Code:
sudo gdm Code:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg |
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