Handle multiple video cards more gracefully

Bug #14009 reported by Rick Wood
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #42731: MULTIHEAD SUPPORT META BUG. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

If the system has multiple graphics adapters (the most common example is an onboard device as well as an expansion card), we choose one automatically, and sometimes the user isn't using that device at all (no display connected).

The workaround for this problem is to remove the device which is not being used (for onboard devices, disable it in the BIOS)

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

We don't currently attempt to allow the user to select which card to use; we
choose one device (the first?) and use that.

Please send lspci output; if there is a simple way for us to handle your
particular variant of this problem, maybe something can be done soon; otherwise,
this is a feature for a future release.

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

*** Bug 20607 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

*** Bug 21173 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

*** Bug 24411 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Daniel Stone (daniels)
Changed in xorg:
assignee: daniels → nobody
Matt Zimmerman (mdz)
description: updated
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