How to select preferred graphics card and drivers?

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#1

Hi,

I have a cheapo Nvidea motherboard and an ATI 5700 graphics card. I wanted to know if there is a simple way to ensure that OS11.3 is using the ATI graphics card and radeonhd drivers instead of the Nvidea hareware+drivers. Is it necessary to blacklist the Nvidea drivers? Is there a simple YAST fix? Any insight would be appreciated.

Regards

#2

adsum01nl wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have a cheapo Nvidea motherboard and an ATI 5700 graphics card. I
> wanted to know if there is a simple way to ensure that OS11.3 is using
> the ATI graphics card and radeonhd drivers instead of the Nvidea
> hareware+drivers. Is it necessary to blacklist the Nvidea drivers? Is
> there a simple YAST fix? Any insight would be appreciated.

You’re saying that the Nvidia video is built into the MB? I have that case
and I just disable the onboard video in the BIOS setup when I want to play
with a different card. Simplest, surest way I know of.

–
Will Honea

#3

In addition to the BIOS setting suggestions, you might find some basic graphic card ‘practical’ theory useful:
openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users

… and for openSUSE-11.3, be certain to read this wiki guide: SDB:Configuring graphics cards - openSUSE

#4

No, that is solved on the motherboard BIOS, you need to disable the onboard graphic adapater.