Easiest way to change graphics card?

Ari Torhamo ari.torhamo at saunalahti.fi
Thu Aug 11 23:08:15 UTC 2005


Hi,

My brothers graphics card got broken and I should guide him through the 
installation of the drivers for the new card over the phone. I just 
spent an hour and a half searching for info on how the installation 
should be done (frustrating :-/ and it appears to me that 
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg is the command to use.

What I would like to know is if there's a way to avoid going through the 
whole dpkg-reconfigure-routine (I just tried it on my own machine). I'm 
afraid that doing that over the phone would be a nerve wrecking 
experience for us both. If I'm not wrong, editing xorg.conf would be one 
way to avoid it, but I read that doing so has some downsides. I also 
wouldn't know exactly what to write to "section "device"". Using 
autodetection would be desirable because of this.

Does hitting "Esc" at the settings you don't want to change always leave 
them as they were before starting dpkg-reconfigure? Are the pre-selected 
values always the ones that are currently in effect?

Many thanks,

Ari Torhamo





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