Switching video cards : "HowTo" ??
david
nux at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Jan 12 17:24:39 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 16:08, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
> > OK your way through it all ,just give it the amount of video RAM
>
> Okay, did that...
>
> > and highest screen res when asked for it.
>
> Oops... it didn't ask me for any resolution.. :-/
>
> > then
> > sudo vi /etc/modules
> > add the line "nvidia" (without "") to the end of the file
>
> Done.
>
> > then sudo vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and change
> > "nv" to "nvidia"
>
> Oops again... the file has NOT been updated. And if I delete my old one
> (ATI card), and run the config tool again, no config file is
> created... :o(((
>
>
> Vince
>
>
That's odd.
I don't have any idea why it wouldn't update unless you ran it as user
and not root.
You are using warty?
When I run this command, after the graphics card section it asks to
write to XF86Config-4 and then it goes on to do the monitor section.
As I mentioned, there's a couple of commands that sort nvidia cards out
without any hacking, but I don't know them because I use the above
method and comfortable with it. Might be worth having a look at the
online help files on the Ubuntu homepage.
regards
David
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