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Quoting Anton Channing <achanning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
So let me get this straight, I thought AGP was the slot in the motherboard for inserting a graphics card. But from they way people are talking, the graphics chip built into the motherboard is also AGP? I had, perhaps wrongly, assumed that using the AGP slot would automatically override the onboard chip. I had never thought of looking in the BIOS. I'm going to get back to Debian over the weekend and try and sort these issues out, I've been kind of busy this week doing photoshop work. Eventually I'd like to see what graphics software there is for gnome, but I expect it will be a while before I give up photoshop completely. Simply because its hard for an artist to adjust to a new medium.
I think it depends on the motherboard, bios and chipset. In the past I've seen PC Chips Athlon motherboards which have on board video cards, as far as I know the onboard video card is normally AGP. The Intel 815 motherboard my friend uses has no means of disabling the onboard video, or if it does it isn't obvious (i.e. option in bios or jumper on board!). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.