Video upgrade advice

[Craig White]

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On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 15:25 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Will that do the video card, the monitor, or both? (just making sure)
> 
> Craig White wrote:
> > boot into runlevel 1 (kudzu won't run)
> > 
> > backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > 
> > run 'system-config-display --reconfig'
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
> > On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 15:10 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> >> 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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