Re: Video upgrade advice

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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