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If you have two video chips and svgalib recognizes the wrong one you are 
supposed to specify in libvga.config

Device 1 or
Device 2

but it is still recognizing the add-in ATI card rather than the onboard 
i810 video, though the latter is selected in BIOS and the monitor is 
plugged into it.

I was supposed to use lspci to determine which video chip is onboard but 
less /proc/pci also works.

Is there some way to tell BL to use BIOS settings?

Someone gave us a computer with a different PCI ATI video card that I wil 
try to find a Win98 driver for so as to avoid the need for i810.  The 
current PCI ATI card is some oddball for which I could not find a driver 
despite downloading a huge collection for many chips and all Windows, 
which is how ATI packages things.  Does Win98 have a VESA driver?.

i180 video chip does not support framebuffer.  I would run Scitech 
Display Doctor to fix that, but then Xvesa would not work.  The SVGA X
server displays 320x200 despite inserting agpgart which I compiled and it 
is supposed to provide the use of 4MB onboard RAM for video instead of 
1MB.  I am told i815 allows the coexistence of an AGP slot but i810 does 
not.


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