VGA mode not supported

[David McGlone]

On Saturday 22 November 2008 9:12:15 am Willy K. Hamra 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.

When I was stuck at a console with no X, jockey-kde wouldn't work for me :-( 
it would tell me "cannot connect to x server"
-- 
David M.