Video upgrade advice

[Eric "Shubes"]

Technomage wrote:
> I would recommend "interactively bootong" (if thats possible there), turn off 
> kudzu (temporarily) and then setup the hardware MANUALLY.

I have no problem shutting down kudzu.
Anyone have any howto pointers or advice on setting up a new video card 
manually (on FC5)? I'm afraid that's my only option.

> pardon my surprise though. I am rather non-plussed that anyone still uses 
> kudzu. I haven't used that in opensuse and I long since have left mandrake 
> and fedora behind (mostly because of some dependency problems i encountered).
> 
> On Thursday 03 August 2006 10:50, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
>> I have a triple-boot desktop (FC5, CentOS4.3, Ubuntu6.06) that I'm going
>> to put a GeForce6200 card into for running a Viewsonic VA2012wb. I
>> primarily use FC5.
>>
>> I have the xconfig settings for the monitor (thanks, Carl!).
>>
>> My problem is that kudzu on FC5 segfaults on my machine
>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186538)
>>
>> Any ideas how I'm going to get the 6200 card installed/configured on FC5
>> w/out kudzu?
>>
>> Note, I haven't tried anything yet. The kudzu bug has me worried.


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-Eric 'shubes'