GPU conflict. Please help.

[ethana2]

I was trying to get Suse 10.1 running on my PC, but I have an ATi card, so it was kind of a pain. I finally got the driver from ATi and ran the installer (sh /home/ethana2/Desktop/ati-driver-...) Turns out, the card effectively doesn't exist, because of a conflict with the integrated intel GPU.

This is an eMachines imperial i845 MB. I have no use for its pathetic integrated GPU whatsoever. I'm putting the video out through my ATi Radeon 9200 SE PCI card, but the GUI lags horribly and Linux cannot use it for 3d rendering. How do I get Linux to see and use my card and not the intel GPU?

[gogalthorp]

Have you turned off the on board video in the BIOS??

[ethana2]

I recall no such option. I will now proceed to check, just to be completely sure. Thanks for the post.

I know someone's probably going to recommend I get a new mainboard. Well, I'm unemployed at the moment. So that's not an option. Preemptive post.

But yeah, here I go...

[ethana2]

Hibernate, go get coffee, start machine, BIOS options, aaannddd:

My only option: default video output: PCI or onboard.

I have PCI selected, of course. Tell me I'm not going to have to flash my BIOS.