Changing video cards

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 20:21 -0500, John T. Moran wrote:
> I'm fairly new to Linux and am trying to change a video card. I am using 
> the onboard intel video on the MB and am trying to put in a gforce 
> fx5700. When I install the card and boot, the x server won't start. It 
> tells me something about the kernel and goes to a login prompt. I've 
> used other distros and when I have done something similar, it usually 
> pops up a screen during boot asking me about the hardware changes. 
> Ubuntu didn't do that and at this point I am kinda lost in how to change 
> out the card.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> John Moran
> 

You're still using the old driver, that's all.

To fix it: run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and choose "nv" as
the driver. Or install the "linux-restricted-modules-386"[1] package and
choose "nvidia" as the driver to get 3D hardware acceleration from
NVIDIA's binary drivers.

     1. If you're installing something other than
        "linux-image-2.6.10-5-i386" as your kernel, substituet the
        'i386' with what you installed. In my case (I have an AMD
        Sempron) I installed "linux-image-2.6.10-5-k7" and
        "linux-restricted-modules-k7".

Ziyad.