On Jo, 05 dec 13, 20:42:47, Jon N wrote: > I hope to be installing Debian in a new computer in about a week or > so. It will have a Haswell processor and I hope to be able to get by > with the built in video. But, if it doesn't work well I have an > Nvidia 8600GT card I can take from my old system. > > But, I really don't know what's involved in switching. If the Intel > video drivers are installed and I shutdown, install the Nvidia card > and reboot I assume the system won't load X, although I'll have the > command line to work with.
Traditionally the "primary" video adapter is selected in the BIOS, but
since you would be using the non-free nvidia driver you will need at a
minimum an xorg.conf snippet with
Driver "nvidia"
and this should override any auto-detection of the Intel video.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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