Switching video cards : "HowTo" ??

[david]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 18:23, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Yes sure, I am using Warty. But I didn't use sudo... I booted in
> "recovery" mode, so as to get the prompt only, and not start X.
> Maybe there us a subtle difference between a root prompt and "sudo",
> that could cause it not to write the conf file ?? :-/
> 
> Vince
> 
> 

The first thing I do on a new install is sudo passwd root and set a root
password and then I always use su to become root. This is how I learnt
and it's automatic now for me.
Maybe this is the difference. Is recovery mode a brown screen with a
terminal window in the bottom right hand corner??

David