Video upgrade advice

[Eric "Shubes"]

Thanks a bunch, Craig!

Craig White wrote:
> both
> 
> 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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-Eric 'shubes'