Switching video cards : "HowTo" ??

[david]

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