VGA mode not supported

[Art Alexion]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Willy K. Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Art Alexion wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:15 PM, David McGlone <d.mcglone at att.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I managed to get a half working X. Enough to enable the restricted
>>> driver for my graphics card.
>>
>> Has anyone figured out a way to get the restricted modules working
>> from, say, aptitude on tty3 so that I don't need to struggle "to get X
>> working enough to enable the restricted driver"?
>>
>>
>>
>
> you can use jockey. jockey-kde is still buggy, but you can install and use
> jockey-gtk. normally, these provide a GUI known as "restricted driver
> manager", but they can be used as CLI programs as well.
> jockey-gtk --help
> this should give you enough info on usage, we are mainly interested in the:
> jockey-gtk -l
> part, after seeing what drivers are available, you can use the:
> sudo jockey-gtk -e DRIVER
> command to enable it.

Thanks to both Willy and Alan.  I'll try it when I get to work on Monday.


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