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@Timo: The problem still exists in both 8.04 LTS, 8.10 and 9.04 on
Fujitsu-Siemens (FSC) computers using AMI BIOS.

It seems to be a problem where the on-board Intel integrated graphics
card paired with a slot-graphics card has Ubuntu, reading the xorg.conf,
so confused it freezes at boot-up, LiveCD or not, where the only option
is a on/off-button shutdown.

This happens when the slot-graphics card is promoted by the user to
primary graphics, downgrading the onboard Intel GPU to secondary
graphics in the AMI BIOS -- [Peripherals] Graphics: OnBoard=>PCI
switched to PCI=>OnBoard. Note that there is no disable option available
of the OnBoard graphics!

Ordinary users, wanting to use advanced graphics on FSC-computers, hence
their addition of a slot graphics card, are out of luck with now-a-days
Ubuntu and have to resort to a more wide-spread OS. Advanced users,
understanding hardware adresses, Xorg and Linux has a bit of tinkering
and log-reading to do, to get their xorg.conf going -- one little error
and your in low graphics mode.

I, myself, is doing okey in Ubuntu 9.04, with an old cherished Ubuntu
8.04/Envy-generated xorg.conf --- non-nowadays-EnvyNG. But I'm not fine,
still forced to have a secondary display attached to the OnBoard
graphics card and the OnBoard=>PCI BIOS-setting active.

A note: I believe this issue to be a Xorg and Linux-problem. All LiveCD
or RescueCD I've tried freezes-up at boot, using this BIOS graphics card
priority change.

Any suggestions?

-- 
X incorrectly defaults to using disabled Intel onboard graphics card instead of nVidia FX5500 PCI card
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/103223
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