Re: Video upgrade advice

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'
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