Switching video cards : "HowTo" ??

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Sat Jan 22 08:57:26 UTC 2005


On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:59:24AM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 05:10:09PM +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > > I was reading through this thread thinking: is there no way to rerun the
> > > autodetection Ubuntu used on installing, it worked very well for me...
> > 
> > Yes, that would be ideal ! Please someone tell me how to do that...
> > maybe just re-run "base-config" or something ??
> > 
> > Vince, bored with troublesome ATI card... :o(
> 
> sudo sh -c 'md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf > /var/lib/xfree86/xorg.conf.md5sum'
> XORGFORCEPROBE=yes sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

With current Hoary, it's simpler, right?  This definitely deserves a short
how-to, though.

-- 
 - mdz




More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list