Changing video cards

[Daniel Stone]

On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 08:21:03PM -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.

Log in at the console, run:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
sudo invoke-rc.d gdm restart

Everything should now be hunky-dory.
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