On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 20:40, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > If you keep using the original graphics device alongside the new add-on > card or instead of it, this won't be a problem: Linux will recognise > the card by its PCI vendor:device string, so you can still bring up X.
No, as I said, this _won't_ work in general. Some low level initialization of the card usually needs to be done by the firmware. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
