Hendrik Boom said on Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:34:36 -0400

>On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 02:19:09PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
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>> Sorry I thought I has said that I had no graphics card. I'm assuing
>> that installing a graphic card is unlikely to get a resolution other
>> than the deefault vga.
>
>On some machines I've had, the motherboard starts up checking whether
>there's a graphics card and if so it uses it *instead* of the built-in
>one. When that happened I had no ability to use both graphics
>channels to, for example, use two monitor.

I think the bios provides you with a way to specify which video source.


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