installing a new video card

Siposs Attila sipiatti at freeweb.hu
Fri Jan 7 21:08:22 UTC 2005


On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 12:19:07 -0800
Brian Craft <bcboy at thecraftstudio.com> wrote:

> What can I expect if I swap the video card? Is ubuntu going to choke
> trying to start X, or will it discover the new card and try to configure
> it? Is there a configurator that I will have to invoke manually in
> console mode?
> 
> On a related note, how is X started on ubuntu? Is it tied to run level
> 5, as it is on RedHat? I didn't see a mechanism to start it in inittab.
> It looks like there's some boot-time mechanism in
> /etc/init.d/xfree86-common.
> 
> 
> b.c.
> 
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gdm is started in each runlevel except 1 (single user)
so you will get the X on each.
try to remove its start script (S99gdm) from /etc/rcx.d where x
is the chosen runlevel for multiuser without X.
Ati




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